Word: problems
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...years ago, when the Ford Explorer was about to make its debut, Ford discovered it had a problem: In internal tests, the Explorer notched a worse rollover rate than rival Chevy's Blazer, and worse even than - gasp - its own notoriously tipsy Bronco II. The Explorer "must at least be equivalent to the [Bronco II] in these maneuvers to be considered acceptable for production," a Ford engineer wrote in a 1989 memo. Something had to be done; this was to be a family...
...sperm bank, make his deposit and high-tail it out of there, check in hand and heart filled with thoughts of untold numbers of happy babies with his nose and hairline. And lo and behold, years later he's dragged into a court battle. Part of the problem, as far as Donor 276 is concerned, is that there are no laws establishing the privacy rights of anonymous sperm donors - and just as Oregon courts recently decided to open birth records to adopted children searching for family health information, the Johnson case could open the door to a far less anonymous...
...wishes that he would say the problem is not simply a budgetary one. The problem is a structural one. The Republicans can properly fault the Clinton administration for giving so little attention to the restructuring of the post-Cold War force." -Andrew Bacevich, national security expert at Boston University...
...topic of conversation. A gaggle of women I approached clearly thought I was some kind of stalker. The conventions? Yeah, right. No, we didn't watch, and get away from us, you weirdo. Those who took me seriously, however, suggested that Clinton fatigue will not be much of a problem for the vice president...
...most of California and Nevada. "How's the country running? Fine, right? That's all I care about." This was a guy whose admitted only impression of the Gore convention was that Rage Against the Machine had been ill-served by the L.A. police, and he had absolutely no problem with a Gore presidency. "Under Clinton, the economy's great. Might as well be the guy who learned under...