It first raised funding for its approach to building a virtual, on-demand workforce, and now it's trying to bring that distributed team to bear on another weighty problem: building up a user base.
Perhaps so, but in this case they have handed the Americans a far weightier problem than simply wondering whether they have good intelligence and whether that intelligence can be trusted.
Covering seventy-four pages in the English version, it purports to speak the council's mind on a number of weighty problems not fully or adequately dealt with in other Council texts.
It was not unusual to see Mr. Clinton lead guests to the White House mess for a late-night snack and for some intense discussion on any one of a number of weighty problems.
Apart from religious liberty, the subject that caused the biggest stir during the final session of the Council was Schema 13, "On the Church in the World Today". Covering seventy-four pages in the English version, it purports to speak the council's mind on a number of weighty problems not fully or adequately dealt with in other Council texts.
Even as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority seeks to overcome a $1.2 billon shortfall with fare increases and service cuts, an even weightier problem looms: The authority is uncertain how it will pay for a five-year capital spending plan that could cost as much as $30 billion.
It is rare to see a movie present such weighty problems and offer nonsimplistic, practical solutions in story form.
Anderson is described as amiable, with a reservation: Lately, however, there had been a distinct feeling of strain and a kind of spiritual absence, as if he were turning weighty problems over in his mind.
In 1951, he wrote to his friend the writer Howard Brubaker, "I started to get out a light magazine that wouldn't concern itself with the weighty problems of the universe, and now look at me".
Ross wrote wearily in 1951, "I started to get out a light magazine that wouldn't concern itself with the weighty problems of the universe, and now look at me".
