Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...final resolution of that conference attacked the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as a "flagrant violation" of international law. The muted resolution adopted by last week's conference called for a Soviet troop withdrawal, but it also kowtowed to the Kremlin by urging a reasoned "political" approach to the problem...
...insinuating attitudes toward academia which intellectually veneered the crudities of Joe McCarthy, and in so doing, fueled 'McCarthyism' at its most virulent pitch with respect to the academic community." Buckley snapped that such a man should be studying English not teaching it -and that suggested a problem for Vassar...
...kind of story that Disraeli the novelist could have written, and perhaps in his own way did. In this version it seems curiously bloodless, however. The women, particularly Peach and Leach, are splendid, and McShane is adequate. The problem is with the producers: there is too much story packed into too little time. One second Disraeli is out of office; the next second he is in-and then out again. Disraeli is dizzying indeed. The confusion has been added to by the show's American editors, who have cut approximately half an hour from the four episodes...
...fact, each company already had begun to wrestle with the problem of getting more miles per gallon of gas out of its cars. GM, which stood to lose the most since it had the strongest lineup of big cars, attacked the problem forthrightly. In July 1972, well before any shortages of oil, the company had set up an energy task force. Less than a year later it decided to shrink its car line, beginning with full-size models in the 1977 model-year, and to build new compacts like the Chevrolet Citation that would be introduced starting...
...were many of the Kotts' neighbors. Over 700 families in all, they live around Love Canal, the notorious, stinking chemical sewer that has become a symbol of the country's growing toxic waste problem. For the past two years, one report after another has told harrowing tales of noxious odors leaking into homes, of sinister-colored sludge seeping into basements, of children playing in potholes of pollutants and, worst of all, of abnormally high rates of miscarriages and birth defects, of nerve, respiratory, liver and kidney disorders and of assorted cancers among people of Love Canal...