Word: problems
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...mistake common to both these approaches to the problem is a failure to discuss it within the context of the strategy of deterrence which the United States has presumably adopted. I believe that an adequate civil defense program is not worth the money, that a greater contribution of deterrence can be made by expenditure on relatively invulnerable weapons systems and on greater mobility and fire power for our conventional forces. Bomb shelters, being an essentially static and inflexible strategic element, could probably in the course of time generate an offensive weapon that would nullify their value. For instance, trench warfare...
Since the site lines, use of scenery, seating arrangement--in fact, the whole philosophy of the two kinds of theater--are just opposite from each other, the main functional problem to solve was: How could they be synchronized in one practical design...
...early stage of the design, Bob Chapman and I consulted several well known stage designers and critics in New York. One, after listening to the proposal, said that architects in Europe and America have tried unsuccessfully to solve this problem for many years. He advised us to abandon the open stage and make a good design for proscenium productions. This advice made the challenge even greater...
...problem of economic growth properly defined, is the greatest problem we face as a nation," Leon H. Keyserling, former chairman of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisors, suggested. The nation's slow rate of growth since the Korean conflict, he said, has resulted in steadily increasing unemployment, a constant level of "private poverty," and neglect of public services...
Another manpower problem which is sure to be troublesome in the years immediately ahead concerns the upper ranges of government service. It is only in the last half dozen years or so that Nigerians have been moving in substantial numbers into the civil service. In many respects it is an impressive body of men which has been gathered together to carry on the work of Nigeria's governments, but serious shortcomings exist both in particular lines of expertise and in the quantity of mature and seasoned men at the top or close to it. The Eastern and Western Regional governments...