Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...There will certainly be no need for a referendum to end the hostage problem. It will be solved much sooner than your question implies. My policy on the hostages embodies an important principle accepted by a growing majority of Iranians: while we must sustain our revolutionary dedication, we cannot afford to bend to street frenzy any more. Frankly, a resolution of the hostage problem is imperative within two months. Despite vexing snags that we could do without, I expect the problem to be resolved in two months or so, shortly after the parliament meets...
...competent enough to survive the economic rollercoaster. Detroit Psychiatrist Victor Cruz says that it is not unusual for a working man, after being laid off for six months, to seek help for sexual impotence. Says Cruz: "The initial complaint takes the form of sexual insecurity, but the problem is often more related to the lack of being able to provide financially for a wife or girlfriend...
What is new is the effort to refurbish and enhance the traditional approaches to the problem. A summary of the work being done to put new wine in these old wineskins...
...Canadian Jesuit Bernard J.F. Lonergan, whose "transcendental Thomism" in Insight (Philosophical Library; $10) justifies Aquinas to the modern world through a complex philosophy of human understanding. Chicago's Mortimer Adler has long been interested in Aquinas' thought. Though not formally religious he nonetheless pondered the God problem for most of his 75 years before writing his readable How to Think About...
...procedure is double-edged. Oxford's J.L. Mackie, perhaps the ablest of today's atheistic philosophers, offers nonsupernatural explanations for such evidence, and raises the problem, as old as the Book of Job, of evil. The existence of evil is no "knockdown disproof of an omnipotent and wholly good God," he says, but it does make God , improbable. Plantinga renovates the theist's classic reply to this: the free will argument. Examining whether a semifictional, corrupt Boston mayor would have taken smaller bribes in other "possible worlds," he argues that even an all-powerful God cannot create...