Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Just a little while back, when Jimmy Carter began to prepare his latest assault on inflation, his advisers predicted that restraining consumer credit card privileges might have some symbolic value but little practical impact on the problem. Carter wondered a bit about the advice but put a paragraph about credit cards in his speech. The response from the public was beyond anything predicted. Some people mailed their cards to the White House, others ground them up, and a lot of folks began buying with cash. Carter's gut had been right...
...least in retrospect, to have been a more orderly place, in which American power could, alone, preserve that order." U.S. armed forces "must be modernized, and they will be," said Vance, in order to "preserve the global military balance." But the hope that U.S. military power can solve any problem is "self-indulgent nonsense...
Today the optimism of the '60s has disappeared, and there is little hope that the problems of the ghettos are about to be tackled anew, let alone solved. The problem is not a resurgence of white racism in America. Instead broad impersonal trends have converged to shift the attention of America away from its ghettos. The energy crisis, the threat of growing Soviet military power and Soviet adventurism abroad, the decline of the U.S. dollar, the fall of U.S. productivity, the nation's vulnerability in a more complex world, as evidenced by events in Iran, the rise...
...problem began when 112,000 Cubans arrived in the space of 48 days-a logistical nightmare that flummoxed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the bureau charged with coordinating the resettlement process. Says William Combs, chief spokesman for the FEMA: "We had to set up while it was still happening." One key problem turned out to be a communications snafu between the federal agency and the private organizations that find homes for the refugees after they are cleared. The Immigration and Naturalization Service had approved 4,000 Fort Chaffee refugees for resettlement after concluding that they were not criminals. Simultaneously...
...government and party officials. Reports TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein: "The fact that they are now being publicly denounced on the country's front pages indicates that the top leadership in Peking is stepping up its campaign against venal and corrupt practices within its own ranks, a problem that has long been a major source of cynicism and unhappiness among China's ordinary people...