Word: problems
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...incidents have spurred students and faculty members to look anew at long-simmering problems between the races, both on campus and off. Acknowledges Susan Hobbs, a white Williams senior: "There has been apprehension about relations between minorities and whites." Another white Williams student wonders why "each group seems to stick together, without reaching out to each other." Says Darrell McWhorter, a black senior who is president of the Williams student council: "There is really nothing different here from the world outside. These incidents have just shown that Williams does not exist in a vacuum." Says Harvard's Jackson: "Until...
...Soviet Union has taken to render assistance to the Afghan government are purely defensive. These actions pursue one aim: protection of our friends and the security of our southern frontiers. No more than that. The U.S.S.R. has repeatedly emphasized that it stands for a political solution to this problem. Washington knows well that if the U.S.A. ensured the complete termination of outside interference in the affairs of Afghanistan and effectively guaranteed, together with Afghanistan's neighbors, that such interference would not be resumed, the reason for keeping Soviet troops in Afghanistan would be eliminated...
...wages paid for work done. If more and more work is done by robots, more and more people will eventually be living on some form of subsidy. Whether this takes the prestigious form of, say, long-term free education or the disdained form of welfare payments is a problem computers are already puzzling over...
...other things, the robotmakers answer. But by whom, and for what? Almost 20 years ago, Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano portrayed a future society in which the elite few run the machines while the unemployable majority subsists on handouts in resentful idleness. "It's an enormous problem," concedes Luigi Lazzaroni, president of the Italian firm that makes the Pragma robot. "Many will have to learn how to work differently. The schools, the industrial firms and the government must cooperate to ensure that the workers are able to fit the requirements of industry...
...this saga) still hovers over the PBH case--and the cases of the Student Assembly, Women's Clearinghouse, Room 13, Radcliffe Choral Society, and various other groups that have managed to get materials into the packets at one time or another. Law, in her memo to Fox about the problem, epitomizes the atmosphere. "For example," she wrote, "I accepted the Student Assembly this fall because I was told it had been authorized by Dean Epps. (My information was apprently incorrect...