Word: problem
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Danehy and his brother John, a Middlesex County Commissioner, owe the city property taxes on a commercial block on Mass. Ave. Danehy told a reporter that "a problem with cash flow" has kept him from paying the taxes...
Danehy has been aware of his tax situation for some time. Michael A. Moreau, project director for the Cambridge tax office, said last week that his office notified the city manager and the mayor's office about the "problem" last...
Harvard freshman Mark R. Bennett called the Danehy incident "typical." He blamed part of the problem on "Cambridge's mismanaged mayoral election system...
Dubin is ultimately a coward--one more sympathetic to his plight (and nearer his age) might call him very human?--but in the end the book is wearing. He obviously sees himself as likable (as does Malamud), but it becomes harder and harder to understand why. The problem is that the book becomes too much like Dubin--one of those people who draw you into their lives with the message, "I can change, I want to change, all I need is for you to believe in me, love me and I will change." And it ends with Dubin sneaking...
...about his game, his utterances reveal modesty and some criticism. His self-analyses are candid: he said of his physical strength, "I'm probably one of the weakest kids out there, Experience shows that when I get hit I fall down or I lose the puck. That's a problem with my game...