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I'm trying to find a solution to an almost intractible problem.
Kotlikoff on Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I'm trying to find a solution to an almost intractible problem.
Kotlikoff on Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The biggest problem with writing optimistic near-future SF, I think, is that if you're going to write about a future in which some of today's most serious and intractible problems are solved, and make it convincing, you almost have to come up with a real, workable solution, and that's something much better minds than mine have failed at again and again.
Filmusik presents PLAN NINE and MISSILE TO THE MOON with LIVE MUSIC (Portland, OR) 2009
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If this research is accurate, then, for example, intractible cultural differences may well lie in the linguistic patterns of a culture.
June « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2010
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As intractible as the Middle East seems, “we cannot give up on peace.”
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The New Deal, while far from a perfect solution to an intractible problem, saved millions of Americans from hunger and deprivation.
Obama Answers Question on Opposition Cabinet - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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What about the 8 previous years of intractible wars, unsustainable trends in housing, a banking system brought to the brink of failure, and other areas of the economy leading up to a big fall among other things.
Jobs, Economy, Anger 2010
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These are severe and nearly intractible problems we face, but that is what makes America great, solving problems that at first look nearly impossible, like going to the moon, for instance.
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He\'s confronting the intractible war on drugs and the giant prison industry.
Can Senator Webb Lead America Out of the Drug War Quagmire 2009
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It does not take much reading of either piece to see that the false charge is simply an I-told-you-so to which is attached a skewering of Human Rights Watch for its objective effort to deal with an intractible conflict.
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