Word: problem
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...addressed some of the most demanding problems facing us in the 21st century--particularly in light of Malthus' 18th century theory that population growth will overpower the planet's ability to sustain itself. Scientific inventions and discoveries ameliorate the problem but not enough to prevent global disaster. Widespread demand for food and manufactured products has contaminated our food chain, arable land and water sources, as well as the air we breathe. We must all begin to cope with the results of urban sprawl and help prevent the destruction of Earth's ecological balance and the life of our planet...
EGYPTAIR No matter what went down, you've got a problem. Name change worked for ValuJet...
...trillion more than it spends--$1.9 trillion in the Social Security trust fund, and $1 trillion as an excess of tax collections over spending for everything else the Feds do. The $1 trillion overage is the size of the entire federal budget in 1987 and, paradoxically, creates a problem for politicians that they have never faced before: How best to channel that torrent of cash...
...could replace the 30-year Treasury bond as the bellwether of bond trading and as a particular magnet for foreigners who accumulate dollars in trade with the U.S. and want to invest the bucks in something both high-yielding and safe? "This is my definition of a high-class problem," Summers wryly remarked. But no one at the meeting expected nearly every penny of budget surpluses to be used to pay off debt...
Then began what both sides describe as more of a "dating process" than a financial negotiation. Blending two corporate cultures can be a problem in big mergers, but it is far more crucial in small companies. If their employees do not get along with one another and leave for a more congenial atmosphere, the merged company can easily be wrecked...