Word: problems
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...return to membership in NATO, a peaceful solution of differences with Turkey, and a solution to the problem of Cyprus are the primary foreign policy goals of the present Greek government and "of all the Greek people," Mitsotakis said...
Improvement of general Greek-Turkish relations will ultimately help solve the problem of Turkish occupation of Cyprus, Mitsotakis said. He added that the problem stems from Turkey's refusal to recognize the existence, under international law, of a continental shelf around Cyprus--preferring to consider Cyprus on an extension of the Turkish continental shelf...
...city has overcome many of the problems that plagued its development. The splits and divisions between neighborhoods have healed at least a little from the day when the snooty residents of Old Cambridge asked that they be officially separated from East Cambridge and Cambridgeport. Corruption, patronage and inefficiency, at times the hallmark of city government, have given way to an administration more professional and more competent. There are signs of a rosy economic future filled with jobs and tax dollars for a city that was hard hit by the southward industrial exodus. Tenants, once strained by rising rents, are protected...
...least $100,000. Four regional directors will split up Kraft's responsibilities, but they lack his close personal ties to almost everyone in the campaign, from the President to the field staff. Said a staffer: "We will miss Tim's day-to-day leadership. He was our problem solver...
...mental ability, from the brightest (Category I) to the dullest (Category V). A study this summer showed that a disturbingly high 46% of the 1979 recruits ranked in Category IV. Those in Category V are automatically rejected as unfit. Alexander sided with consultants who concluded that the real problem was the Army's use of a test that was designed to measure aptitudes rather than intelligence. He ordered all scores removed from personal records, to keep them from being misused. Says Alexander: "What is relevant is how well these individuals perform as soldiers." Yet, on a test that evaluated...