Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...first three months of the primary season, Carter's candidacy was artificially buoyed by crises overseas, which caused Americans to rally around him at home, despite double-digit inflation and other domestic problems. Now, the public mood has changed. A national survey for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. on March 19 and 20 found American morale and confidence in the future at an alltime low; only 14% are optimistic, compared with a high of 47% early in the Carter Administration. Concern about inflation has surged; 74% of the 1,221 people interviewed consider...
...that seems unlikely, at least for the time being. At the White House on primary night, the first problem was how to tell the President that he had been soundly defeated. Said an aide: "Thank God we had him prepared, or it would have been very unpleasant breaking the news." The President was still upset. Said Jody Powell, with what sounded like a hint of understatement: "He is a graceful loser, but he is not a good loser. He was not at all happy...
...firestorm of criticism that greeted the proposed cuts may not be Lannon's only problem. The city's mayor, Francis H. Duehay '55, last week called for "serious consideration" of further budget cuts to keep tax increases to a minimum...
When Alitto just tells Liang's own story, Liang is perfectly capable of holding the reader's interest as dynamic, powerful, figure. He is important then, because as he grappled with the general problem of Chinese intellectuals--the preservation of Chinese culture--Liang illustrates how Alitto's "Chinese dilemma of modernity" affected the individuals being modernized. And as Liang's life touched upon other leading figures of the day, his individual story does yield new insights into the general milieu in which both Mao and Liang worked...
Firemen may have exacerbated the problem by hosing the pools, causing more of the liquid to rise into the sky, sources on the scene said...