Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent growth in biotechnology and information services has generated a lot of new wealth in the city, pushing property values even higher. According to Duehay, the end of rent control compounded the problem...
Natalie Smith, a member of the Eviction Free Zone, an organization active in combating housing injustice, also says unity within neighborhoods is a problem...
...holidays pose a unique problem for window decorators: they have to both sell specific gifts and draw in customers with unique displays...
...issues of race at Harvard and a world-renowned Afro-American Studies Department, black students still face a Faculty that is overwhelmingly white and an administration unreceptive to calls for greater Faculty diversity. Randomization has atomized and dispersed black students, undermining traditionally supportive communities; the College has addressed the problem of self-segregation without dealing adequately with the negative impact on black students' experiences at Harvard. The College must now concern itself, especially if randomization is to stay, with fostering new sources of communities-perhaps a viable new student center...
...over the Internet. Yet, by the year 2002, electronic commerce within the United States is projected to grow from a current $8 billion to $300 billion, and the NGA calculates this will cost states and localities between $8 billion to $10 billion in foregone revenues. This is an expensive problem: states raise 50 percent of their revenues from sales taxes--taxes that pay for everything from schools and hospitals to police services and roads, fire protection, health care and garbage collection...