Word: problems
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...born, general practitioners began disappearing from the American landscape. But a decade ago, medical schools started offering a new specialty called family practice. Rose signed up, and so did many others. Today there are 54,000 family physicians in the U.S. (as compared with 21,000 in 1969). "The problem in medicine used to be the discovery of causes and cures of diseases," Rose explains. "Now it is the distribution and application of that knowledge. For that, the generalist is what's needed." Getting the information across can be a slow process. Rose is deep into organizing Grange dances...
...abroad ? the railroads, the exporters and the shippers ? all will suffer too. Said Rod Turnbull, spokesman for the Kansas City board of trade: "There is grain on barges, in train cars, in elevators and on farms that is contracted for overseas delivery. We will have a terrific problem straightening it all out." Said John Lambert, a barge operator in St. Paul: "We're concerned, particularly about our debt service. You can tie a barge to the shore, but you can't shut off bankers...
Modern farm-belt agriculture, however, has brought with it a new manifestation of an age-old problem -soil erosion. Inadequate conservation measures combined with very heavy planting have led to excessive runoffs of soil into rivers and streams. In such Plains states as Nebraska and Kansas, where often only scattered trees break the wind, some farmers watch helplessly as their most valuable asset blows away. The Agriculture Department considers the loss of five tons of soil an acre annually to be excessive; below that, the land can renew itself fairly well. Yet Illinois farms are eroding at an average...
Carter was also eager to de-emphasize the Soviet-American relationship, which he felt had preoccupied postwar American diplomacy. His advisers encouraged him. Cyrus Vance is, by nature and by his legal training, a problem solver and a conciliator, a troubleshooter rather than a theoretician. His approach to huge, complex challenges has been to divide and conquer them one by one. He is uncomfortable with, and not very adept at, historical generalizations or global grand designs. Zbigniew Brzezinski, on the other hand, is a well-established, if somewhat controversial, geostrategist. He began talking of an "arc of crisis" around...
...China last week about Sino-American common interests in countering Soviet expansionism, the Administration abandoned the last pretense of the "evenhandedness" it promised in its policies toward Moscow and Peking. Far from playing down the Soviet-American relationship, Carter and his advisers today are more preoccupied with the problem of how to deal with the Russians than any American leaders since the Cuban missile crisis. And Carter may, for some time to come, use maps when he addresses his countrymen on the world...