Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...read to her. In turn, she has been able to help Senior Pattie Gregory, 17, who began losing her sight at age 13. Says Pattie, who is teaching Braille to Mabel. "Someday I'm going to ask her to help me with cooking. I have such a problem with cooking...
That will require much more research. One problem: single-shot railguns like the Los Alamos-Livermore machine must be painstakingly rebuilt after each firing. The projectiles also have an annoying habit of breaking apart when they leave the gun barrel. But the remarkable possibilities - high-speed guns of almost every kind that can shoot through practically anything - ensure continued research, financed jointly by the Departments of Defense and Energy...
Brokaw's problem is certainly not laziness. Married to his college girlfriend, a former Miss South Dakota, he was NBC's White House correspondent for three years. He now lives with his wife and three daughters in Manhattan. He often jogs four miles in Central Park before he leaves for the office at 5 a.m., and recently he has taken on the added job of writing and delivering the news on Today, a chore that used to be handled by Floyd Kalber. Brokaw's drawback rather is something he cannot do much about: his frosty demeanor...
...deficit should recovery spur renewed inflationary momentum in the meantime. Said he during his congressional testimony: "I have spoken before about the potential for collision and conflict between restrained monetary growth and the financial needs of an expanding and inflating economy. Recent developments provide a taste of the potential problem." In short, unless Government under a Republican Administration proves better able to live within its means than has been the case with the Democrats, high interest and slow growth are likely to become permanent features of the American economy for years to come. By Christopher Byron
...turn down Poland's money request for fear of a more pronounced Soviet intervention in the country's internal affairs. Says Lawrence Brainard, a Bankers Trust vice president: "The real issue is what is the price of political stability in Eastern Europe." More broadly, the Polish problem seems certain to alert lenders to the dangers of much offshore lending, which in turn will make borrowing more difficult for impoverished nations around the world...