Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...centralized system is designed to improve a long-standing problem with inadequate classification, the report states...
...added that the problem had gotten "much worse" in the past month, with mice running across the room at least three times in one night...
...fight to free the hostages remains one of the Carter Administration's most nettlesome difficulties. So far, the U.S. has been deliberately delaying the imposition of its planned economic sanctions against Iran in the hope that its new President, Abolhassan Banisadr, may yet help resolve the hostage problem. But as the hostages start their fourth month of captivity, there is no real cause for optimism...
Then there is the identity problem, which most candidates meet at one time or another. An elderly man in Juana Díaz cheered Connally lustily under the impression that he was Kennedy. Baker took no chances: as he made his rounds, a spotter moved ahead of him in the crowds to make sure that people shook the right hand. "El de los pantalones amarillos, "he repeated to onlookers (He's the one in the yellow pants...
...built up last summer in anticipation of an industry-wide United Rubber Workers walkout. Shipments were off 8.5% in 1979 from 1978's 205.6 million, and the industry finished the year operating at only 65% of capacity. The slowdown in new car sales is only part of the problem. Because people are driving less and are switching to smaller cars that do not wear down tires as fast as Detroit's fading dinosaurs, the replacement market has gone flat. Result: tire sales are now creeping ahead by an estimated 2% annually-at a time when the companies need...