Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...wearing a wig. As it was pulled off, he announced, "Eccomi qui" (Here I am), and then defiantly refused to say another word. Bensinger believes that such raids are at least helping to stem the flow of heroin to the U.S. Said he: "It still is a major problem-more addicts, a drain on society. But the level of increase could have been far worse...
Experts say that the problem will end only with a change in the weather: several consecutive nights of temperatures below 55°F will finish off the mosquitoes, for this year anyway...
...Customs officials seize 2,500 tons of marijuana a year in Florida, presenting them with a disposal problem that is literally too hot to handle: marijuana burns at such high temperatures that conventional incinerators can be damaged. So, as a favor, the Florida Power and Light Co. has offered to turn the confiscated pot into kilowatts at its Port Everglades power plant...
...City), the quest for an encyclopedia was born. Recalls Editor Thernstrom (whose name is Swedish): "We started on the assumption that there were something on the order of 50 or 60 ethnic groups. We ended up with 106-and even that is a somewhat arbitrary figure." Part of the problem was that nobody has an airtight definition of what an ethnic group is. Basic differences of national origin, race and language are clear enough. But sometimes groups are distinguished from one another by other characteristics, such as food preferences or political affiliations in the homeland. As Sociologist Milton Gordon suggests...
Hopper was 84 when he died in 1967, and to the end of his life he remained a somewhat misunderstood figure. The problem was not lack of fame or acceptance; he had plenty of both, at least in the U.S., and even the abstract painters (whose work he tended to see as a threat) respected his exceptional formal gifts. Rather, the misunderstanding lay in the nature of Hopper's Americanness...