We are just back from three weeks in East Africa, where the need for simple solutions to overwhelming problems related to providing safe essential surgery confronted us wherever we journeyed.
Slowing demand from the economically distressed countries of Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand, representing 6% of the global market, does not appear to be an overwhelming problem at this time.
In the face of the world's overwhelming problems, I am often tempted to believe that I have little to offer, that my small contributions won't make a difference in the lives of those in need.
Never mind tuition fees, alcohol abuse is the overwhelming problem at universities.
The Dymaxion appealed to the era of the Depression, when people dreamed of radical new technological solutions to solve overwhelming problems.
That is, when faced with a major life crisis, from their point of view, suicide may become an immediate option as a solution to their overwhelming problems.
But in the face of vast numbers of potential asylum-seekers, all sides have found it easier to fight over local shelter policy than to address the overwhelming problems in the Mediterranean and north Africa.
Despite the bank's overwhelming problems, many citizens of Siena refuse to accept that the bank can no longer serve as all-purpose community benefactor and patron, one that has subsidized the local university and a hospital.
More important, he has given little sustained attention to the country's overwhelming problems — including, of course, the Islamist extremism that, for the Obama administration, has made Pakistan quite possibly the most important, and worrisome, country in the world.
"And how do you know your building won't be taken away from you in a year?" Despite these overwhelming problems, hope for the future and pride in their new nationhood seem to be the mood today among East Timorese.
