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Trends in public concerns from 1935 to 1984 are traced, based on the Gallup Poll question on the most important problem facing the country, which provides a barometer of both short-term fluctuations & long-term trends. Most notable of the secular trends are: (1) the long-term decline in economic concerns from 1946 to the mid-1960s, & their return to top position by the mid-1970s; (2) the decline of foreign affairs as a concern after withdrawal from Vietnam, & the failure of other foreign policy issues to replace worries over Vietnam; & (3) the sharp rise & fall of civil rights concerns from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s. HA

In a continuation of an examination of important problems in the US (see abstract of Part 1 in this section also), trends on regional, community, & personal most important problem questions are presented. Each reference -- whether national or personal -- tends to elicit distinctive distributions of problems. Certain trends are common across all references (eg, the decline in economic concerns from the 1950s to the mid-1960s) while other changes (eg, in housing & community problems) are unique to the particular reference. 3 Tables. AA

The most important issue in today's Estonia is undoubtedly everyday security in the streets and at home. As there has been an explosive growth in crime and particularly serious crime, the police often lack the resources (both time and people) to tackle petty crime which affects the man on the street most directly. Most of the serious crimes are connected with the settling of accounts among criminal gangs which can affect ordinary citizens too, since they are often accidentally caught up in such conflicts. Organized crime is directed at making new successful businessmen pay "taxes," which in future can slow down economic activity, although this is not happening yet. Currently, part of the "successful" criminal structures try to secure positions in legal economic structures (by money laundering), and there are clear indications that at least some of them have succeeded. The main roots of organized crime are in the former Soviet Union, and insufficient border control contributes to its penetration into Estonia. The criminal gangs of the former Soviet Union are not just a problem for Estonia or the Baltics but also for the police in Central and Western Europe. Besides, the spread of organized crime may rest on structures created on the instructions and financing of the KGB, and that in certain situations these structures may serve political orders.

Tracking responses made to the "most important problem" query in Gallup polls since 1935.

Harry considers his most important work was achieved in the last 2 years of his life as 'Harry the Hospice Cat'. Situated in his sun spot in St Angela's garden and then his window sill in the marketing office Harry ruminates over the micro-level marketing being undertaken by a hospice. Inspired by the death of a real-life hospice cat together with an ethnographic study of a hospice marketing team 'Harry's most important work' is not a 'tall tale' but gives real insight into the challenges and battles involved in marketing work. Harry observes the demands made on St Angela's to embrace digital advances and the struggles of nonprofit organisations to keep pace with new marketing practice. Observing the 'goings on' as well as the different 'languages' in a hospice, Harry highlights the very real tensions that arise from the difficult work being undertaken and analyses the organisational tensions which emerge when a marketing team strive to negotiate their legitimacy. From under the table in the chilly, white meeting room Harry tells the unique and important story about the 'doing' of very difficult marketing in the unusual context of a hospice. Harry's story has implications for marketing education, practice and research as well as other animals who may feel a sense of responsibility to help humankind.

Abstract
The Zhuangzi is a book that opens to a virtual wilderness of interpretive possibilities begging for exploration by scholars and laypersons alike. What follows here is an adventuresome foray by one of the latter. As such, it is essentially an exercise in creative writing. Since it is our interpretive conclusion that this was precisely what Zhuangzi himself was about, we believe he would smile broadly upon this endeavor however far-afield its proclamations might be. This point is central within this essay. However we engage with Zhuangzi, whether as a dilettante or an academic, it is the engagement that matters most. Conclusions are secondary at best. This having been said, conclusions will be found herein. Ambiguity is the signature characteristic of Zhuangzi's writing. Awareness of ambiguity as a defining characteristic of the human experience invites us to consider the importance of not-knowing, the thing-left-out, the usefulness of the useless, the prioritization of Yin over Yang, and, most importantly, the experience of inherent emptiness. For Zhuangzi, such an awareness invites a radical paradigm shift away from the cognitive to the visceral. It invites an embrace of emptiness that renders one free of all dependence on being a self in need of itself.