Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Kennedy had withdrawn his name from nomination the night before, after losing a rules fight that ended his last chance of prying loose a sufficient number of the 1,982 delegates Carter had won in primaries and caucuses. But the fervor of Kennedy's supporters demonstrated a severe problem, not only for Carter but for all Democrats. The party is searching for, and has not found a new role and a new voice. While its primary votes went to Carter, whose conservative economic policies caused Kennedy to jeer at him as "a clone of Ronald Reagan," the hearts of many...
...Carter tries to pull a Truman against a formidable opponent with a well-defined appeal, his problem is not simply that he projects an image of faltering leadership: the party he is trying to lead is itself in trouble. In Congress, the days of comfortable Democratic majorities may be past. A July poll showed the public favoring Republican congressional candidates over Democrats for the first time since 1952, 47% to 43%. The Democratic majority of 116 in the House could easily be reduced by 30 to 50 seats, and some Democratic leaders are afraid that a landslide Reagan victory might...
Remembering his 1972-74 stint as Secretary of the Treasury, George Shultz, now vice chairman of the Bechtel Corp. and one of Ronald Reagan's economic advisers, emphasizes that much of the "abrasive interface" between Government and private enterprise results from differences in thought processes. "When a problem comes up, economic thinking says, 'What is the efficient way to solve it?' " writes Shultz. "Political thinking says, 'What is the equitable solution?' " In the search for equity, economic considerations are too often overwhelmed by special pleading by pressure groups and naive, overzealous Government officials...
...than profits or the best interests of shareholders and employees. Instead, the determining factor is Government policy; and it, of course, is seldom based on a comprehensive grasp of relevant economic facts. Sums up Dunlop in a masterly understatement: "We need to find better ways to work on the problem...
...problem is simply that except for Cassatt, none of the Americans whose work reached toward what was being done in Paris by Monet, Renoir, Degas or Pissarro could consistently perform on a high level. They saw what the French saw; they studied in Paris; some of them even painted the flowers in Monet's garden at Giverny, with the assiduity of students doing the Roman ruins a century before. They were not trivial or maladroit. Yet charm, rather than inspiration, remained the order of the day. No wonder that Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, Edmund Tarbell, John Twacht...