Word: problem
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...only did injuries hurt the Crimson during the match, but they adversely affected Harvard even before NCAAs were underway. At a meeting to determine the seeds for the 16-team draw, Fish admitted his squad was not at full strength due to Tom Blake's hamstring problem. That fact cost Harvard the No. 12 seed and a date with Illinois, a far weaker team than eventual national runner-up Georgia...
Each seminar had a particular focus, honing in on social development, language, numerical reasoning, problem solving and perception...
...Another problem Lucas faces is that everyone he meets in Jerusalem asks him about his religion. The question troubles him because he can answer it only in the past tense: "My father was a nonpracticing Jew. My mother was a sentimental Catholic." What he has inherited from his parents continues to elude...
...never met one parent or teacher or student or principal or even computer salesman who claimed that insufficient data is the root of the problem. With an Internet connection, you can gather the latest stuff from all over, but too many American high school students have never read one Mark Twain novel or Shakespeare play or Wordsworth poem, or a serious history of the U.S.; they are bad at science, useless at mathematics, hopeless at writing--but if they could only connect to the latest websites in Passaic and Peru, we'd see improvement? The Internet, said President Clinton...
Yeltsin's election would hardly be automatic. First he must evade a constitutional two-term limit. Yeltsin's aides argue that since his first election in 1991 was under the old Soviet constitution, he has, under the 1993 Russian constitution, served only once. A more practical problem is support. The business and media coalition that backed Yeltsin in 1996 is no more, and his onetime supporters are no longer sure he is electable--or desirable...