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Word: problem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unfit lies behind it. Intelligent students at the University of Costa Rica can hardly expect to go through college without failing a couple of courses, some of them two or three times in a row. A friend tells me of a math professor who gives no credit if a problem in a test has an incorrect answer. He then goes back to look for errors of procedure in the problems where the answer was right...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: A Fool's Complaint | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

...know from experience that tenants working together in a group are much more stronger than an individual trying to deal with this problem alone," Marcotte says...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Motley Crew: Grassroots Group Fights for Tenants | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

...problem with [crime] being at an all-time low is that a small increase really gets people worried," Pasquarello says...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cambridge Crime Rates Continues To Plummet | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

...next published report will be the 1999 Annual Report, which will be available in February 2000, assuming the Y2K problem does not end all civilization," CPD's Web site reads...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cambridge Crime Rates Continues To Plummet | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

Serious critics of the World Trade Organization may be facing a problem familiar to that of moderate Republicans - making their voices heard above the extremist din in their own tent. President Clinton arrived in a Seattle under siege Wednesday, after police Tuesday imposed a curfew to curb the protests that disrupted the opening of the WTO summit. An impossibly broad coalition of activists - ranging from anarchists to environmentalists and the pillars of U.S. organized labor - have condemned the WTO as a forum of corporate interests with growing power to overrule national governments on such issues as protecting the environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protests Could Drown Out Real Anti-WTO Message | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

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