Word: problems
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...your Essay on "The Decline and Fall of Oratory" [Aug. 18]: great speeches require great men. Rhetoric is a set of tools that anyone can use; the problem is not with the tools, but with the people who use them...
...treaty, in effect, consecrates the dictum laid down by Dutch Jurist Hugo Grotius in 1609 that the oceans of the world belong to everyone. The problem, says Richardson, was that "the old Grotius order was breaking down." When negotiations first began, 50 countries had extended the traditional three-mile territorial limit to twelve miles, and many had pushed it to 200 miles. Bickering over fishing rights had even flared into gun battles. Freedom of passage through strategic straits was jeopardized. The discovery of mineral nodules on the seabed raised questions never defined in international law. The draft treaty attempts...
Unprincipled or incompetent examiners are to blame for some of these problems, and in fact the uneven quality of the operators is an admitted industry problem. Operators still do not need licenses in half of the states, including New York and California. Says Joseph Buckley, who heads the Chicago office of John E. Reid and Associates, one of the nation's leading testing firms: "Like an X ray, a polygraph records data that take a lot of expertise to interpret. In the wrong hands, it's worse than nothing...
...most promising lesson from the first steps to revitalize the American auto industry is a new spirit of cooperation between management and workers. When the very future of Detroit became an issue, the old "we-they" approach changed to an "all of us" one. Especially in tackling the problem of quality production, company and union officials showed a willingness to experiment and listen that should be a model for many other businesses. Some of these innovations, such as the election of United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser to the Chrysler board of directors, are still unproven experiments. But as Fraser...
...Ford cars will have important design changes to correct past problems. To avoid the fires that were sometimes caused in rear-end collisions in the Pinto, the new cars' gas tanks are placed in front of, rather than behind, the rear axle. In addition, the automatic transmissions have a pronounced barrier between park and reverse to prevent slippage between the two gears. Last week the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was still considering whether to force Ford to recall some 16 million vehicles because of that problem in earlier cars...