Word: problem
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Harvard turned the ball over seven times, four of which occurred in the fourth quarter. Harvard committed five turnovers last week in a 36-35 loss at Penn, giving the team 12 in its last two games. This is a problem area where Harvard will need to improve for next season...
...problem is how to control the use of that information in a legal setting and its potential prejudicial nature in non-scientific settings," said Billings...
...problem comes when an issue arises above the everyday budgetmaking and the like, and big work has to be done. This is where the Clinton Administration has failed. In certain areas, he and his colleagues have not risen above the transactional level. They've done it rhetorically, in laying out great ideas and great dreams and hopes. But they haven't followed through strategically, or in terms of commitment and conviction, to even begin to solve these basic problems...
...Which is one reason why when Republicans went to federal court last week, they led with a more subtle claim. A problem with the Florida hand recounts, they said, was that by conducting them in some counties and not others, the state was depriving voters in counties that were not being recounted of equal protection of the law. It was an odd claim - the GOP doesn't usually ask the federal courts to intrude in state elections - and an unconvincing one. As the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals noted in rejecting it, Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution expressly...
...could be a compelling case, particularly if plaintiffs can prove that the ballot actually violates state law. The argument that a Democratic official prepared the ballot should be irrelevant: the right to a legal ballot belongs to the voters, not a political party. The biggest problem with the suit is that there is no easy remedy. Recounts are routine. Ordering a new election, even in a single county, is a more radical step that no court has ever taken in a presidential election. A new election would mean deciding who could vote - all voters, or just those who turned...