Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That left Harvard limited time to practice and get its game face on, but surprisingly, the delay didn't prove much of a problem, as the Crimson opened the first game with...
...last problem is only growing more acute. There are hundreds of student groups, and their growth shows little sign of stopping. The vast majority of these groups don't own buildings, and instead depend on the whims of the College for office space. Currently, only one out of four student groups has office space from the College...
...just 65 in 1990, it consumes an additional 500 acres of field and farmland every week. What it leaves behind is tract houses, access roads, strip malls, off ramps, industrial parks and billboards advertising more tract houses where the peach trees used to be. Car exhaust is such a problem that Washington is withholding new highway funding until the region complies with federal clean-air standards. On a bad traffic day--basically any weekday with a morning and evening in it--you can review whole years of your life in the time it takes to get from Blockbuster to Fuddruckers...
...their pasture often think about cashing in. "You get people waving millions," says Ben Wurtsmith, 67, a rancher in Colorado's Eagle County, not far from the exploding area around Vail. "Some days you just think about taking the money and taking off." One way to solve the problem, being used in parts of Colorado, is "development rights," which let builders put up houses more densely near town in exchange for payments to outlying farmers and ranchers to keep land open...
...America's detonating metro regions were the result of population growth alone, sprawl would be a problem without a solution. But they are equally the result of political decisions and economic incentives that lure people ever farther from center cities. For decades, federal highway subsidies have paid for the roads to those far-flung malls and tract houses. Then there are local zoning rules that require large building lots, ensuring more sprawl. Many localities fiercely resist denser housing because it brings in more people but less property-tax revenue. Zoning rules commonly forbid any mix of homes and shops, which...