Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...about all opposition to a 5% increase in the Pentagon budget. "The Soviets took care of that?in Kabul," said Byrd. A senior Defense Department offcial agreed. Said he, beaming: "We're going to get all the money we now need. The Congress will throw it at us. Our problem will be to see that we spend it for the right things...
...western campaign manager, needs all the time he can get to expose his candidate. "Over a 16-to 18-month period, the truth will out," he says. But the candidate who is holding down a full-time job is at a serious disadvantage. That has been the problem for Howard Baker, who was late in starting his campaign because of his duties as Senate minority leader. Significantly, all his chief rivals are currently unemployed. "We've really turned the world upside down," says Barney Frank, a Democratic state representative in Massachusetts. "It used to be that you needed...
Every morning for seven years, two workmen have had to scrub the front steps of Oklahoma's state capitol, cleaning up after the hundreds of starlings and pigeons that roost on the ledges overhead. To end the problem, the state installed spikes, but the birds merely used them to anchor their nests more securely. Next the state spread a sticky goo that was supposed to give the birds hot feet. This did not work either. Then the state set out corn kernels that had been treated with a birth-control chemical. The birds still multiplied...
...Afghan standin, Karmal. The President probably has the support of no more than 10% of the population. "The people question his legitimacy and view him as an atheist who has sold himself completely to the Soviet Union," said a senior Western diplomat in Kabul. "Karmal's No. 1 problem is to get some political support from the people, by whatever means...
Junk oil furnaces are economical only in service stations, factories or other industrial enterprises that generate waste oil. Homeowners would not want to use the devices because buying, transporting and storing the fuel would be a problem. For all that, the heaters make an important point: even so lowly a product as junk oil from a jalopy can help the nation conserve energy...