If Brown pushed Cal/OSHA to adopt the federal standards contained in the National Emphasis Program on Lead — as it has for chemicals at metal foundries and silica dust — those immediate problems would be solved.
But for the firms, the immediate problem would not be the Florida fine itself, which might be reduced on appeal (vast punitive damages usually are).
If China were to place orders tomorrow for $1.5 trillion in American-made goods, the effect on our economy, unemployment level, manufacturing base, budget deficit, state budget shortfalls, public-employee pensions, and a host of other problems would be immediate and dramatic.
Foremost among the government's problems would be the immediate need to identify land upon which to build housing - something already at a premium in Japan.
Of course, while it's often smart to buy a technology to solve an immediate problem, it would be nice to know ahead of time that you're buying into a dead end so you can budget properly.
Fixing the immediate problems would take time and money.
Gov. James E. McGreevey appointed the president of Amtrak as executive director of New Jersey Transit yesterday, saying his immediate goal would be to resolve the problem of overcrowded commuter trains in the nation's third-largest public transit agency.
May promised that immediate steps would be taken to eliminate traffic and parking problems caused by students and their parents.
Harvey Robins, who was operations chief for Mayor David N. Dinkins and who reorganized several city agencies, said the immediate effect would be to distance Mayor Bloomberg from future technology problems.
