Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although this petition was introduced just a year ago, Moot said that Cantabrigians have been working for 10 years to solve the truck problem...
Beverly Evans, also a resident of Coolidge Hill Road, said she has lived in Cambridge since 1968 and that this problem has been getting worse every year...
Sally Landis, a resident of Story Street, described the same problem. Story Street is made up of older Victorian-style houses that do not respond well to the shaking and disturbance created by large trucks...
...when I got here. I had a lot of idle time at my job as a short-order cook on a ferry in Long Island Sound, enough to mull over the stories I had heard of people coming to college and changing their names. I didn't have a problem with the sound of my name, Alan, and I've never been crazy about my middle name, Eric. After running the choices by some of my co-workers on the ferry, I briefly considered ditching the names on my birth certificate entirely, and switching to Rambo or Fabio or something...
...worst way to tackle the problem would be to blame the technology itself. But the way that technology is put to use does deserve a more critical look, and not the unabashed enthusiasm everything e-related receives now. Before we rush to wire every classroom to the Internet, before we give our business to amazon.com instead of the local book store, before we pack our bags and bid au revoir to the real world, we eventually need to decide whether the cost of the convenience, in terms of human interaction, might be too great...