31.   On the surface, the country has been faced with weeks of turmoil.

32.   Richard Thau is executive director and co-founder of Third Millennium, a national organization of young adults that offers solutions to long-term economic problems facing this country.

33.   Social Security is probably the single most important issue facing the country.

34.   Still, the majority of those surveyed as they left the polls said moral, not economic, issues were the most critical ones facing the country.

35.   The currency crisis and troublesome debt burdens facing Southeast Asian countries, such as Indonesia, have increased fears that a global economic crisis is imminent.

36.   The economic fallout from the recent massive earthquake in Japan is a stark example of the financial woes facing that country these days.

37.   The fact that bin Laden operates in Afghanistan is not the only problem facing that country.

38.   The federal government certainly has its faults, but it is not responsible for every problem facing the country today.

39.   The impending collapse of these two great pillars of support for the elderly is widely acknowledged as the biggest problem currently facing the country.

40.   The most basic question facing the country on energy is how to keep supply and demand in line.