Word: problem
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Fred Smith '04, a new member, thinks he might have a solution to what he calls the council's classic taxation problem...
...every year since 1983, the council has been funded exactly the same way: a $20 optional term bill fee. The problem, council members and administrators say, is that $20 doesn't buy what it used...
...About the only way the late Carnahan can beat a living Ashcroft is if Wilson announces in advance whom he intends to appoint should Ashcroft lose. The problem for Wilson, and the Democrats, is that the choices are few. The state's leading member of Congress, House minority leader Richard Gephardt, doesn't want the job. Attorney General Jay Nixon and former Senator Thomas Eagleton probably can't beat Ashcroft. The only Democrat with a shot at doing that would be Carnahan's widow, Jean. But since she also lost a son, Roger, in the crash - an aide...
...language of caring (against Gore's tin ear for it) that he got the biggest applause of the night on David Letterman last Thursday when he repeated the "trust" mantra. Indeed, when Gore in the debate brought up the Dingell-Norwood bill, a bipartisan effort to solve the HMO problem, he might as well have pulled a shiny chrome instrument out of his back pocket and performed an invasive procedure on one of the Undecideds. In the face of details, Bush seeks refuge in his own good intentions, expressed in a warm bedside manner. "You can quote all the numbers...
...break this cycle. On the other hand, the opposite is also possible. But I think that all of us operate on the premise that it has to be possible. And to those people who think that the peace process doesn't work or is flawed or is the problem, I just think they're dead wrong...