The economy is a spectacular problem.
With spectacular debt problems, and high youth unemployment figures, Spain is slashing its budget for official development assistance.
The international storm clouds are many — spectacular debt problems in Europe, uprisings sweeping the oil-rich Middle East, and Japan's many crises.
After the spectacular production problems of the Ornette Coleman concert last week -- ending in generator noises, searing lights on the crowd and an aborted show for a pneumatic ticket price -- the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival appeased its audience on Sunday night.
The most spectacular equipment problem occurred when Contador's race radio broke after the first seven kilometres of the Tour's crucial 52km final time-trial stage which meant the Spaniard had no idea how he was time-wise compared to his rival Andy Schleck in an event decided by a few seconds.
Some spectacular engineering problem cases are reviewed first, to motivate the discussion.
Certainly, L.A. was a very different place in the 1860s (mainly, a collection of ranches surrounding a town with a spectacular crime problem).
The acting is solid without being spectacular, although the simmering problems troubling Hannah and Nessa don't provide much in the way of opportunities.
Although he did not envision planetary disaster, T.R. recognized that the lavish use of resources that had contributed to the nation's spectacular economic achievements posed problems for future generations of Americans, and as President he took steps to slow the process.
This may well be so, but there is a niggling feeling that, like many of Heatherwick's inventions, it is a spectacular solution to a problem that doesn't really exist.
