Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Feigenbaum solved the computer's redistricting problem, but further complications cropped up just as he was leaving to attend Yom Kippur services. He left the Council members with directions onhow to fix the new problems, but they were unableto fix them early enough for the elections tobegin on time...
Replying to a question, D' Souza argued that the decline in black enrollments in branches of the University of California system due to the abolition of affirmative action was a "problem only for the 15 to 20 elite colleges" and over-all enrollment of minorities had not been adversely affected...
...know how defensive I sound, and that brings me to my main point: Fetishism is a problem. A superficial preference for black males or Asian females or any other group grounded in stereotypes can and does offend deeply. Such a racial ranking of desirable (mostly sexual) partners represents ignorance of the basest kind...
...liberally charging the lone Caucasian at an Asian American Association's event with fetishism is just as dangerous a problem. While fetishism pinpoints cultural ignorance, random charges of fetishism impede attempts to address that very cultural ignorance by dispensing guilt. I wanted to learn more about my friend's ethnic history simply to fill a gap in knowledge I did not know was there until meeting her. Yet guilt tainted any attempt to fill that...
...June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that students could sue school districts for harassment by teachers but that a district would only be liable if a person in authority knew of the problem and reacted with "deliberate indifference...