There was not going to be any private or amicable solution, and it would be fortunate if all three involved made it through alive.

"It's a careful balance of public and private solutions."

There was only one solution---a private solution, man to man.

And that is why, even now, we must have a public as well as a private solution.

Conservatives still dominate debate with ideas such as using government to free up market forces for private solutions to public problems.

But Mr. Bush, whose philosophy often stresses private solutions over public ones, bypassed the big picture to bore in on this one detail.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

The mutual ownership projects are an example of success in the early US public housing effort before conservative forces took control and promoted private solutions.

Netizens must be ever vigilant in ensuring that overreaching governments do not hamper the development of private solutions to privacy issues.

"There is no private solution in the railroads," Mr. di Tella said.