Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family in Washington. She was happy with them for a while, and they with her. And everyone's needs were met, as the therapists say. Papa Bill, Mama Linda and Baby Monica got what they wanted from one another, each in his own way. There was only one problem: they hardly knew each other. Let alone themselves...
...only person with cause for complaint is the Marcovaldis' daughter Nina, 12. "She feels she has to compete with the turtles for her parents' affection," admits her mother. "We are trying to spend more time with her." That won't be a problem for the turtles, since Neca and Guy have plenty of helpers to nurture the next reptilian generation...
...Mass., the heavily Italian old fishing port where she settled four years ago. At first fishermen losing boats to bankruptcy weren't eager to hear their trouble analyzed by a woman environmentalist, and certainly not by a nonreligious Muslim, born in the U.S. of Iranian parents. But the underlying problem, years of overfishing off New England that had caused fish stocks to crash, wouldn't go away. Neither would Dorry. Quietly she spoke to Gloucester residents: this is my information; this is what I think and why I think it. A few at a time, often grudgingly, the fishermen...
...commissions can draw up regulations for their own areas. Meanwhile the Star's owners, rebuffed in Gloucester, are lobbying to operate from Maine. Greenpeace and many other groups contend that trawlers are too efficient and too wasteful. They contribute to overfishing by catching everything in a gigantic swath. A problem with this is "by-catch," undersize fish or unwanted species that go back over the side, dead...
...service, partially at taxpayer expense. "What this does," Dorry says, "is institutionalize factory fishing, not ban it. What it doesn't do is deal with overfishing." She is silent for a moment. Then: "No. No, the bus tour wasn't wasted. At least more people know there's a problem. The fight is in Congress now. It's winnable. We're going after them...