Word: problems
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...didn't play as well as we have," attacker Kate Martin said yesterday. She attributed part of the problem to the field. "Astro-turf makes the game a lot faster," the sophomore said...
...distant upheaval that is vital to its interests, is trying belatedly to position forces that seem too thin to establish a commanding presence, looking desperately for some diplomatic friends who might help us influence events, groping for words that will describe our concern but not aggravate the problem, and doing it all in a kind of hasty and grumpy fashion because the war between Iraq and Iran is intruding on our presidential political spectacle...
Jimmy Carter is only part of the problem, though the most visible part, and the man who can do most to create a strategic view of the globe. But there is no longer an effective national consensus providing the underlying momentum for defining and implementing U.S. and free world interests...
Ironically, one of the chief targets of Vander Jagt, who was the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention, is Mo Udall, 58, who was the Democratic keynoter. Admits Bruce Wright, Udall's campaign manager: "The Republicans smell blood this time." The ten-term Congressman's chief problem is the rapidly shifting political complexion of his district. It includes Tucson, which is part of Pima County. The county normally accounts for about 80% of the district's votes, and its population has soared from 275,000 to 531,885 during Udall's 19 years in Congress...
...city to increase from 246 in 1978 to a projected 600 this year; arrests for heroin possession and trafficking are running 85% ahead of 1978. Moreover, said Morgenthau, "the free availability of heroin is increasing the number of addicts." New York is ill equipped to combat the problem. Because of budget cuts, the city has only 325 narcotics investigators, compared with about...