Word: problems
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Attracting endowment and talent is difficult for a little-known school with constantly rising costs. But Holland treats this problem more as a conspiracy than as an obvious, though distinctly unfortunate, fact. The very small, new or specialized institutions would naturally not have the endowment of others; and, in effect, most have scholarships for all in the form of low tuition...
Kennedy, on the contrary, is portrayed as a man "of some steadfastness of conviction," "a committed liberal." In a psychoanalytic approach to the democratic nominee's personality, Schlesinger asserts that Kennedy has "resolved the problem of his own identity," and as a result of his long illness has gained a certain measure of inner conviction...
...many ways typical of the tenor of the whole campaign. Kennedy sat with schoolboy composure, taking notes and speaking calmly. Nixon added to the annals of history's best bloopers with a remark about solving the farm problem by abolishing the farmers. And at Agassiz, three 'Cliffies fell asleep...
Today's pollution problem is bad. But by 1970 an estimated 75% of the U.S. population will be jammed into only 10% of the nation's land area, and the dangers of environmental contamination will be infinitely more acute. Says Cincinnati's Dr. Kehoe: "The new and dangerous environment that man has created for himself now provides a challenge to both curative and preventive medicine-a challenge that requires additional types of medical knowledge, new medical skills, and new settings for application of such knowledge and skills." Adds Cornell's Dr. McDermott: "To reduce pollution significantly...
...rising purchases and rising price sounded a new warning to the U.S. Treasury, which has been steadily losing gold for three years. This drain, as Chase Manhattan Bank Vice Chairman David Rockefeller said last week, though no cause for immediate alarm, is "perhaps the most serious international economic problem this country faces...