Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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While accurately identifying the Pentagon's manpower problems [June 9], TIME suffered an identity problem of its own. It transposed identifications under the pictures of Lieut. General Glenn Otis and Professor Morris Janowitz...
...uncertainties is just how many young men will ignore the law. Hatfield complains that even if there is only a small resistance, like 2% of those required to register, the enforcement problem would be huge. Says he: "It is impossible to prosecute 80,000 noncompliant people." Nunn does not agree, and warns: "We shouldn't let the impression go out that young people are not willing to make the sacrifice to protect the national security of this country...
Since the Wood vs. Strickland Supreme Court decision of 1975, which upheld the right to due process of students accused of troublemaking, the number of students expelled from school has dropped by about 30%. As always in a democracy, the problem of expulsion turns in part on the question of concern for the rights of the disruptive individual vs. the rights of classmates and of society. School officials argue that it is wiser and more humane to keep a violent or disruptive student in school than to turn him loose on the streets. But, says John Kotsakis of the Chicago...
...their thing' was the way it went. So they can't read. Parents are awfully upset. But when I call them to suggest they enroll their kids in remedial work, a lot of them are not interested. They just don't want to face the problem...
Similarly, the divorced hero of The Winter Father must endure both the absence of his two small children during the week and the problem of entertaining them on weekends. He imagines owning an enormous building that would make life simple for fathers in his position: "A place of swimming pool, badminton and tennis courts, movie theaters, restaurants, soda fountains, batting cages, a zoo, an art gallery, a circus, aquarium, science museum, hundreds of restrooms, two always in sight, everything in the tender charge of women trained in first aid and Montessori, no uniforms, their only style warmth and cheer...