Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...result, although most of Harvard's buildings are partially accessible, few are 100 percent open to people with mobility impairments--a problem which University officials say they would love to rectify, in theory, were it not so difficult to do in reality...
...College provides services for students with disabilities through the Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC), where Booker says he turns whenever a problem arises...
During shopping period this fall, for example, Booker says he discovered that the sole elevator in Sever Hall was temporarily out of order for inspection--a problem that would have prevented him from shopping a class. So Booker called the SDRC...
Here is the fundamental problem with referring to terrorists as "Islamic terrorists." The word "Islam" refers to the religion and its ideology while "Muslim" refers to the worshippers themselves. This is an important difference. The dangerous misnomer Islamic terrorist implies that the religion itself is the cause or the motivation of the violence--that terrorism can be carried out within the dictates of Islam. By referring to such a terrorist as a Muslim terrorist, one merely refers to the fact that the terrorist happens to be a Muslim without implicating the religion as a whole...
...past, plumbing was a big problem, and there was only one shower for all the guests, in the men's bathroom - so every time a woman needed to shower we had to cordon off the men's room," says Jennine B. Mazzarelli '01, an emergency director for the shelter. "Now the bathrooms look great--there is a shower in the women's room too, and overall the place looks much more welcoming - which is important if you're trying to give people a real home to live...