Word: problem
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...drinkers have felt that their liquor supply was threatened. At one college even the change from daylight-saving to standard time resulted in a noisy disturbance, because bars were closing one hour earlier. What has changed is that today many colleges are publicly discussing and beginning to address the problem...
...recent ad placed in major national newspapers by the presidents of 113 colleges and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges announced a joint effort to deal with the problem of student binge drinking. This advertising campaign signals a major change in the way that colleges are responding to the alcohol problem on their campuses. The problem has moved from the agenda of assistant deans of students to the desks of college presidents. It is openly discussed in the New York Times rather than being kept hidden to avoid embarrassment to a school's reputation...
Despite the attention colleges are giving to this problem, there has been no decrease in the level of heavy alcohol use to date. Perhaps it is too early to find a change. Perhaps the approaches colleges have undertaken so far are too limited...
...dream. And although part of the show demanded that Clinton grab some high ground with a call for compromise ? a rejiggered cut of, say, $300 billion "would be a good bill I would happily sign" ? the tax cut of the century is looking more and more like a problem for the next one. Compromise? "I don't see it as practical this year," Senate leader Trent Lott told reporters afterward. "The President says he wants to work with...
...unfair trade (the page-jackers try to sell more advertising on the porn sites based on the increased number of visits). Just how this will play out remains to be seen, since understanding of the hackers? methodology remains hazy. TIME technology columnist Josh Quittner is optimistic that the problem will be solved, but it may take a while. "It's going to be hard for the U.S. government to enforce local law internationally," says Quittner, referring to the foreign locations of the hackers. "The best solution is technical, not legal, and I'm sure someone is working on this. Sooner...