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What I did say was that I expected, or feared, chaos, which, from my point of view as a problem solver and question answerer, not a cashier, means lots of problems with hard answers or questions that should never have arisen; in other words, explaining, patching and apoligizing for mistakes in buying and organizing. My remark to your reporter indicated that that did not happen, and lines and crowded aisles do not contradict my statement. The managers and buyers should be praised for their work...
...means is Barber a one-issue candidate. Although some would label him politically conservative, he says he agrees with much of the Cambridge Convention '75 platform. However, he says, unlike the rest of the slate, he's not an ideologue, but a "problem solver...
This line is seriously eroding Simon's influence in Congress. A year ago, when he was the nation's energy czar, even liberal Democrats viewed him as a pragmatic problem solver. Now many consider him a rigid conservative ideologue...
Among the 30,000 letters that she receives each month from the most desperate of her millions of readers, the nation's best-read problem solver has not yet heard from the White House. Should a plea for help arrive, however, unstumpable Ann Landers will be ready. Last week, speaking to 1,500 students at Notre Dame, Eppie Lederer, who has been "Ann" for 19 years, was asked how she would advise President Nixon. "Get on national television and say 'I resign,' " said Ann bluntly. At a recent White House reception she went on to relate...
...good will, a man equipped by temperament and upbringing to hope. Yet his book is an epitaph on liberalism written with conspicuous pain by an author who includes himself in the epitaph. Heilbroner fits his own description of Promethean man, full of "driving energy," "nervous will": a problem solver. Now, he grimly concludes, that gift of fire may burn up the world. For the sake of the race Prometheus must go. To be replaced by whom? Atlas, Heilbroner proposes, the burden bearer rather than the problem solver: the man who plays life not to win but to survive. Before...