That was before the FTC announced last October it was launching a nationwide contest to get the public's help in solving a difficult problem.
We had a technology company come to us some time ago, before the tech bubble burst, with a difficult problem.
Conservative councillor John Knapman said it was a "difficult problem at this time of year".
But overall, diabetes, driven so intensely by overweight and obesity, "is a terribly difficult problem, " Dr. Weir says.
Each one of these is a difficult problem to unwind, and many of us struggle with more than one.
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Present a difficult problem, they provide a clear, direct, and preposterously simplistic answer.
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It strikes me that trying to define where the front lines are might become a very difficult problem in wartime.
But Mr Clegg said the government had come up with a "fair and progressive solution to a very difficult problem".
"In many respects, Afghanistan represents a more difficult problem set, " he said.
They have been asking the U.S. forces at checkpoints not to search the Iraqi women, but that is a very difficult problem that coalition security forces will have to work out.
As the ingredients of food become ever more characterised and understood, and their links to human health established, the EFSA has a difficult problem applying a scientifically rigorous approach to health-related claims without assuming the weighty bureaucracy of a pharmaceuticals regulator.
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She said it was "a hugely difficult problem" to break the "grim" cycle of abuse and violence that carries on "from one generation to the next" and social workers needed to take a more hands-on approach and focus more intensely on the lives of individual families.
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Finally, the bill has gained support among Republicans, in part because it is seen as a technological fix to a difficult to solve problem.
Richard Thomas of Traffic told CNN that Internet sales of ivory was potentially a major problem that was difficult to combat, but said eBay had been good at monitoring and removing anything illegally posted for sale on the site.
"This is not an ideal solution, " he says, to what he considers a "devilishly difficult" problem.
This led to a third and more difficult problem, the question of who should pay for the health care program.
My wife had a very serious and difficult problem, and her GP advised that the only hospitals she should consider were Mass General and Beth Israel.
And they have a tremendous amount of capacity of resources to deal with this very difficult problem, but it is a crisis significant enough that a lot of countries, including the United States, led by the United States, have come in to offer further aid and assistance and expertise to help them deal with it.
Once a problem has been defined by a category of solution it is difficult to break out of that category.
Zhao says his aim is to make real a problem that many have talked about but at times gets a little difficult to understand.
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"In the build-up to a tournament it is difficult but once it starts it doesn't really become a problem, " he said.
That level of invention, which solves a generally unrecognized problem to create a new product category, or user experience, can be difficult to recognize in the conceptual stage.
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The problem: very difficult to generate a sustainable revenue model.
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But Boskov said the time difference had been a problem during the tour and his team was now ready for what they expected to be a difficult game against unfancied neighbours Slovenia.
It makes no sense to be compounding a non-proliferation problem that is already profoundly complex and difficult.
Valerie Howarth, ChildLine's chief executive, said children often found the pressure of being told about a serious problem, and then being sworn to secrecy, difficult to bear.
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