Word: problems
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...been another favorite Williams cause. But for all his seniority (he chairs the important Labor and Human Resources Committee), the New Jerseyite is widely regarded as a weak Senator. He is shy and occasionally self-effacing. His colleagues-and the voters-respect his having defeated a serious drinking problem and talking publicly about...
Dreyfus' purpose is twofold. First, he wants to reduce the PACs' influence over individual politicians. Noting that Louisiana's candidates for Governor last year spent a total of about $20 million, he declared: "I just don't want to wait until we have that problem here. If we don't do something about it, we're headed for the best government that money can buy." Second, Dreyfus wants to revive the state's Democratic and Republican parties, which are nearly broke. By passing the PACs' cash on to candidates, the parties would...
...heart of Saudi Arabia's problem is the unfinished task of creating a modern state out of a cluster of Bedouin tribes that were unified by Abdul Aziz (Ibn Saud) under the present kingdom in 1932. The royal leadership is worried by the growing polarization of Saudi society; thousands of young Saudis return from the West every year with university degrees, only to chafe under a puritanical, semifeudal system designed to appease the disparate desert tribes. "When the graduates come back, they are given nice jobs with plenty of money," remarks one educated Saudi. "But how long they will...
...Crimson fencers dropped all three events on their way to the disappointing defeat. At sabre, the Crimson's strongest area, and foil, the Lions came up with slim 5-4 victories. Harvard, however, had its biggest problem in the epee event, taking only two of nine bouts...
LATER, A HALF-HOUR alone with the man shows nothing further underneath. Ask about nuclear--Reagan will lean forward, voice husky with sincerity and with the strain of endless campaigning. "I wish students would look into the entire problem, so they could see the refutation that is available," he says. Now expansive, leaning back, reciting Guiness-Book evidence. "Even Three Mile Island, and that was worst, had less radiation than flying coast-to-coast on an airplane. Less radiation than living at the altitude of Denver." Reassuring, even compassionate now, Reagan switches topics; he counsels young people not to protest...