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Word: problem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...negative part out of the way, Harvard's pass coverage has been a problem all year. There have been holes in the zone, and the corners play too soft, giving up lots of passes in front of them with five or even 10 yards of cushion. There has also been a lot of bad luck, however...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blee-ve It! | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...Above all, "it's the economy, stupid." In general, relatively high unemployment and low growth (such as we saw in 1992) help two kinds of candidates, the liberal and the extremist. One promises that the government will help, the other promises to find a scapegoat for the problem. And, of course, the incumbent tries (usually somewhat unsuccessfully) to deny that there's a problem...

Author: By Rosalind J. Dixon, | Title: Pat, Pauline and Extremist Politics | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...dropped from 33,000 to 16,700 ft. in less than 40 seconds, paused, quickly climbed upwards for more than a mile, then fell towards the waters off the Massachusetts coast. Speculation on that unusual flight pattern now centers on some sort of human, rather than technical, problem with the flight. Especially now that the flight data recorder, recovered earlier in the week, revealed that the plane had been taken off autopilot shortly before the crash -- and that both engines were shut off seconds before the 767 made its final, fatal descent. "Someone on that airplane was trying to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EgyptAir Crash: Unspooling the Cockpit Voice Recorder | 11/14/1999 | See Source »

...easy. Reconstructing the contents of a tape that has spent two weeks submerged under 250 feet of salt water could prove difficult. The NTSB will probably need translators since the last words of the Egyptian flight crew were likely in Arabic. And if in fact there was no mechanical problem, what went wrong? Did an intruder succeed in wrecking the plane? Or did the pilot himself somehow send the plane down, either through some kind of error or even deliberately? In the end, the questions may outnumber the answers provided by the cockpit audio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EgyptAir Crash: Unspooling the Cockpit Voice Recorder | 11/14/1999 | See Source »

...Considering the slow start Harvard had against B.C. last time, the team has been fine-tuning its game all week to deal with the perceived problem...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Opens NCAA Tourney Against B.C. | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

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