Like Archie and Edith Bunker in "All in the Family," Ann and her daughters, Julie and Barbara Cooper (Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli), used comedy in the service of grappling with serious and thorny real-world matters.
Here's what has caused the rash of recent headlines about the growing crisis in A&E departments: the health service is grappling with austerity-led cuts while trying to weather a perfect storm.
The young people who visited the service were grappling with the concept of "what is normal?" on a whole other level to what I'd experienced as a teenager, their confusion and distress over their gender identity heightened by society's expectations of how teenage boys and girls should look, sound and behave.
Last week, T-Mobile and Danger, which manages the data services, began grappling with a range of technical issues affecting users of the Sidekick smartphone.
"At a time when many families have seen no improvement in their living standards for more than a decade, and public services are grappling with rising demand and squeezed budgets, voters concluded that these priorities were simply perverse and refused to endorse them.
On the eve of a major technology rollout, subscription music services grapple with marketing strategies.
Palliative care and hospice services grapple with how best to use their limited resources to support bereaved former caregivers [ 40].
As Indian software services companies grapple with the vastly reduced quota of visas, American companies will have to figure out ways to collaborate with them to help manage a supply imbalance that is expected to emerge as the economy improves, said Atul Vashistha, chief executive of neoIT, an outsourcing advisory company based in Santa Clara, Calif.
"Either it will realize its full potential by delivering growth in daily users, or it will end up as the next Twitter," the social media service that has been grappling with stalled growth, he said.
Confronted with the threat of lower advertising revenues and declining fees from cable service providers, they are grappling with new ways to reach younger audiences.
Transportation commissioners this week recommended several changes to bus service for seniors and the disabled, including cutting weekend service, as they grapple with reduced funding.
