Word: problem
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...time and within budget. Not anymore. Originally budgeted to cost $10.8 billion, overruns and unanticipated construction challenges have added $1.4 billion to the cost of the project. While it was not surprising that some cost targets were not met in this mammoth project, there is a deeper problem: The managers of the project apparently concealed that information from state officials, bond rating agencies and the public...
...school's committee on institutional life is considering plans for a new athletic facility and will recommend a solution to the gym space problem by the beginning of next semester...
...School News Officer Michael J. Chmura says several solutions to the problem have been proposed, from purchasing Hemenway to including an athletic facility in Harkness Commons at the Law School to providing law students with passes to Bally's in Porter Square...
...real problem with this year's Cultural Rhythms emcee was that he didn't have enough melanin in his skin. He was white. Its okay to discriminate against or make disparaging remarks about his race because he already has "power" in society--the same goes for all "European Americans." Next time you're watching a basketball game and a white guy misses, promptly purse your lips and deliver up a disdainful "Pshh! White boy "According to the current "intellectual" understanding of race, you're enlightened...
When dramatist and poet Ben Jonson published his complete works in the early days of the 17th century, he caused quite a stir in Jacobean high society. It's not that his writing was particularly scandalous. The problem, it seems, lay in the fact that he included both his plays and his poems in the same book. And why was that so surprising? He waspublishing his complete works, after all. But in Jonson's day the emphasis would be on the word works and not on the word complete. It might seem like a silly semantic quarrel today...