Word: problem
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Like everybody else spending spring break on the Old Continent, I lose an entire hour of my life only to get it back the last Sunday in October. Not a problem, I say to myself. After all, that happens every spring--but this year it was inflationary...
...Nevertheless, the court upheld the ordinance on the grounds that the city did not necessarily need to prove a correlation between nude dancing and crime. It needed only to show that the ordinance would somehow further the city's interest in controlling such negative effects, rather than solving the problem completely...
...More scrod! Wicked! Wicked! Wicked!" Sophomore year, I saw a downside--that accent was really not just an elaborate ruse. Now, in my senior year, I'm watching my friends take jobs in New York and Boston, and it seems these places are unavoidable on the path to success. Problem is, after three years I'm sick of the Northeast. I want to go back home, where the best thing at a donut shop isn't the coffee...
After Smith & Wesson confirmed the problem, it offered Perry $1,400 if he would sign a nondisclosure agreement; Perry also wanted a safety notification sent to gun owners. When the company upped the offer to "nearly $30,000," said Perry, he agreed and quit talking, except to acknowledge that he got an "appreciation fee." James Gannalo, a police ballistics expert, found the same problem when he tested several Smith & Wesson models for TIME. "It's a threat," he said, "because hand tension could cause the gun to fire when [the handler] believed it was safe." Smith & Wesson declined comment...
...Lingerie Industry: Manufacturers report increases in orders from Arab countries. "They had a big problem with low oil prices last year," a supplier told Women's Wear Daily. "Now it's not only the wealthy, but...middle-class Arabs who are looking to buy more beautiful sleepwear...