Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that now everyone thinks he did drugs," an adviser says. "No one cares about what you did 30 years ago. The lasting damage is the way he's reacted, showing his annoyance and anger. He's beginning to look like a guy with very thin skin. And the problem is that it's true--he does have very thin skin...
...bounds, not even questions about rumors of drug use from an unelected press corps that has its own skeletons. His approach was harder to pull off: raise the bar, create a zone of privacy, don't fall into the trap of trying to prove a negative. The problem is that Bush went about his nondisclosure selectively. In a political age when biography is destiny, Bush has not exactly clammed up on personal matters, detailing over time his history as a drinker, his religious conversion, his fidelity to his wife Laura. It amounts to saying that when it comes to electing...
Salt Lake City has a problem far more interesting than tornadoes and gold-medal scandals. Some would have you believe that if you bite into a burger or light a cigarette in the Utah capital, you risk being pummeled by one or more of an estimated 50 to 100 Straight Edge kids, and there might not be a more terrifying image than marauding teens who look like the tattooed, mutant kin of the Brady Bunch. The threat, fortunately, turns out to be an exaggeration. But Mormon Elder Alexander Morrison, fearing that Straight Edge could lure teenagers because it shares some...
...small ?- about an eighth or a tenth the diameter of a human hair ?- that they lie beyond the capability of existing technology. Never fear; a researcher in Cambridge, England, is apparently on the verge of developing a highly precise mass spectrometer that might be able to tackle the problem. Until then, NASA asteroid specialist Michael Zolensky and his colleagues will have little to do except wait ?- and collect more evidence. After getting the word out to be extra careful with new meteorite finds (previous discoveries have been tainted by suspicions that they had become contaminated by water from Earth...
...privilege of public service, make about a third of what their private-sector counterparts do ?- but are still expected to put in the hours of a first-year go-getter. As one 1998 memo from senior lawyer Fran M. Allegra put it, "If the Department continues to ignore this problem, an intrepid attorney will develop a class action on this issue and major problems will result." What about 200 intrepid attorneys...