Word: problems
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Mugabe also faces a problem in containing black expectations. Explains Eddison Zvobgo, Minister for Local Government and Housing: "Our people must understand that we are coming out of a war. This period will have to be one of belt tightening and self-reliance." No sooner had Mugabe taken office last month than his new government was hit by a series of strikes in the textile, clothing, electronics and food industries. The strikes were swiftly put down by a combination of reason and rule. After dispatching his Labor Minister on a nationwide tour to hear the workers' grievances, Mugabe angrily...
What do you think of our Four Modernizations?" The young factory technician looked at me expectantly over his cup of tea, and then answered his own question. "They are fine in theory," he said; "the problem is implementation. The factories are still in the hands of retired soldiers who don't know anything about running a factory. If you want to do something new, it's like hitting your head against a steel wall...
...problem that Deng and his colleagues have most successfully confronted is the nettlesome one of succession. Two months ago at an important Communist Party plenum, Deng got rid of most of the radical holdovers on the all-powerful Politburo. Now speculation centers on whether Deng, who is 75, will voluntarily step down from his government, but not party posts, as he has been hinting. That alone would be an unprecedented gesture in a country where, as one senior official recently complained, "we generally either stay in office until we die or we do something so bad we get thrown...
...preached for years that the 21st century belongs to Japan, but has been afraid that his country was not developing enough leaders to succeed the U.S. as the "center of human prosperity." The new school, into which Matsushita has already put $28 million of his "spending money," attacks the problem head on. Students are given free tuition, room and full board and a $600-a-month stipend. "I was determined to open this school even if there was but one applicant," said Matsushita in the inaugural address. There were, in fact, 907 applicants, but just 24 passed the grueling written...
About all these men have in common is the fact that they talked, at enormous length, to Gay Talese. He responds by decreeing them typical and elevating their itches into a national problem. What must be done to provide sauce for these ganders? Hefner has built a sybaritic, self-enclosed world, described by Talese with popeyed wonder. The author found another answer in the "permissive paradise" of Sandstone, a 15-acre retreat near Los Angeles that flourished in the '70s on a diet of communal nudity and sex. The Sandstone philosophy was not, Talese insists, a clever license...