If we truly want to confront the problem, then we'd better have the guts to see the problem.

CNN: America should see the Newtown carnage

Now we must confront the second problem -- to revive the spirit of citizenship, to marshal the compassion of our people to meet the continuing needs of our nation.

CNN: Text of Bush's Notre Dame speech

The second main problem the leaders will confront at Vancouver, and it's more urgent than the first, is membership.

CNN: The End of APEC?

First, all of Brazil's presidential candidates, but especially Mr da Silva, should make it clear that they recognise and are preparing to confront the domestic-debt problem, and that they support current moves to make the country's central bank independent.

ECONOMIST: First it was Argentina. Will Brazil be next?

Now, here's the problem that we confront -- and this is a solvable problem.

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall in Arnold, Missouri

That's the problem that we really confront.

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall in Arnold, Missouri

And as we all know from our own experience, the way to deal with a problem like that is to confront it and to talk about it and to try to repair the damage.

ECONOMIST: Joe Lieberman, Brutus or Moses?

Yet what is known of his background is illuminating of the larger problem we must now confront.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The fifth column syndrome

Some of the new financial instruments also confront investors with a problem largely absent from traditional asset-backed securities: moral hazard.

ECONOMIST: Bonds that rock and roll

Mr Zapatero has spotted a problem that many Spaniards now confront for the first time, as they compete with immigrants for scarce jobs.

ECONOMIST: Spain

The problem that any ardent Blairite must confront is that there are no ideological grounds for taking on Mr Brown: the policy differences that divide him from Mr Blair, although real, are too nuanced and subtle to provide any.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

That is the problem Prime Minister David Cameron had to confront last night.

BBC: How will the two speed Europe get into gear?

In other words, perhaps Harvard believed a quick, simple and limited e-mail search would nip this problem in the bud and allow the University to confront the alleged source of the leak in the most streamlined way possible.

FORBES: Harvard's Secret E-Mail Search: The Intersection of Internal Investigations and Digital Privacy

The other problem with money experts is that most of them confront a conflict between your needs and their own.

FORBES: Amateur Hour

The big problem is, people who hate leaf blowers and power saws rarely confront their neighbors.

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