Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that Barrett's delusions--blown up by the author into chapters' worth of prose--are caused by an imbalance in the pH of his bloodstream, easily correctable by the addition of hydrogen ions. Percy's reduction of the alienated condition of man to a manageable chemical problem mocks not only all his own best writing but also some very intelligent philosophy which he has previously raided for the substance of his own work. Perhaps the self-appointed Kierkegaard of the mint julep golf circuit would blame his intellectual forebear's disaffection on anemia...
There is a problem in the metamorphosis, though; Klein's politics haven't changed as much as her lifestyle. "Clearly, I'm still a leftist," she says. "I'm not sure that my job does enough for other people; I really am not. I don't want to say that it absolutely doesn't, but I don't want to lie to you and say, 'Hey, I'm really doing a lot for humankind...
...expected to help U.S. grain sales. Chinese imports of U.S. wheat, which totaled just 300,000 tons three years ago, could top 5 million tons this year. And if nearly 1 billion Chinese take a liking to hamburger buns or Danish, wheat exports could soar. The only problem may be that many people will complain that they are hungry again an hour after eating a jelly doughnut...
...reliance on mass circulation is "no longer valid." He plans to turn the News into a "full-service community newspaper" focused chiefly on prosperous residents of the city and its nearby suburbs-the kind of readers who could help the News attract more department-store advertising. The problem for the News will be to attract those "upscale" readers while still appealing to the average straphanger. News editors insist that they can maintain the necessary split personality. For example, they believe that Tonight will not cut into the morning News circulation, since most of the anticipated evening readers will be suburbanites...
...migration of people and economic shifts, if they are the fundamental sources of such strains, are also the sources of equally difficult but opposite problems. While many small towns are frantically trying to get more industry or keep what they have, others are groaning under the problem of providing services for the additional people who come in with new industry. Just recently, Colorado's Governor Richard D. Lamm complained that the energy boom was bringing some of his small towns more prosperity than they could afford. Wrote Lamm: "Craig, Rifle, Meeker-towns that have existed on a stable agricultural...