Word: problems
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...true, but you seem to have avoided one important and growing problem. That is the impossibility of teaching students who are high or low on marijuana, alcohol, or some other drug...
...oldest traditions in politics for the governing party to cut taxes in an election year, but this year, the Carter Administration vowed, that would not happen. Absolutely not, declared Jimmy Carter. Absolutely not, vowed Treasury Secretary G. William Miller. Absolutely not, echoed Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. The great problem was inflation, the Administration said throughout the spring, and that required a balanced budget, and no tax cut. "I will not consider any reduction in taxes," said Carter last March, "until I am convinced that the 1981 budget will be balanced...
Given a nation with such dogmatically resplendent papers, a Chosen People, "like Israel of Old in the center of nations," the problem of America became one of theodicy: how to explain a history so often at odds with the virtuous myth? Most succinctly: What was the author of the Declaration of Independence doing with a houseful of slaves? The contradiction between promise and reality rarely torments mellower cultures-life is one thing and rhetoric another, and it takes a literal-minded innocent to be deviled by the discrepancy. But Americans often somehow held to the fierce, insistent innocence of their...
...Wall Street Journal had an unusual problem for a newspaper: too many people wanted to read it. Circulation rose 154,588 last year, which is about as many copies as the San Francisco Examiner sells every day. When circulation spurted another 136,604 in the first three months of this year-surpassing the New York News, then the nation's largest daily-the Journal (circ. 1.8 million) eased up on radio and television promotion and raised its newsstand price from 30? to 35?. Warren H. Phillips, 54, chairman of the parent Dow Jones & Co.,* said the paper simply could...
Immortal in Lipstick. Cleaning up is not easy, either. Only this spring has the Park Service figured out how to cope with the problem of Box Canyon. Box Canyon, in Mount Rainier National Park, contains such a remarkable example of glacial action that in 1957 the park ran a blacktop trail into the canyon and put up a marker calling attention to the phenomenon...