"I had a communication problem with the engineer and thought another year of that and I could find myself without a GP ride, " he said.
Dressing up in layers also makes it harder to motivate yourself to exercise because a coat can easily hide any problem areas and banish the thought of exercise until spring.
It would be nice, therefore, to believe that somewhere, the contemporary equivalent of a bored patent clerk is thinking about the problem, and that when he has thought hard enough, a new reality will emerge.
Alex and Ofer assembled a small team and literally got in a room and thought about how to solve the problem.
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It was long thought to be a pyschological problem, and only recently has the medical profession realised there is often a physical problem instead.
The problem is thought to be a short-term one and the plane is expected to be ready to depart later.
They found each step of the process created compounds made up of both proteins and carbohydrates that are thought to cause the problem.
"We were standing next to each other and he had a bit of a problem because he thought I stamped on him, " Britton said.
Sun rays are, as expected, absolutely no problem and we have to admit that on first sight we thought the device had a sticker affixed to its front -- its that good at reproducing printed materials.
We know now that the problem was much worse than we thought a year ago, and it's truly global in scale.
"I had the problem a few years ago at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and never thought there would be a re-occurrence, " Pavey explained.
Corey Kasimove, an analyst at Oppenheimer, speculated in a March 27 analyst note that the interaction, which he and his physician consultants had thought was a minor problem, may be what is holding up the drug's approval.
At a Harvard reunion last year, Sandberg saw Cameron and told him she thought she could help fix the problem.
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When teams ran into a problem, they could refer back to the principles and adjust anything they thought did not correlate with the principles.
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All of this is because the politicians thought they could grapple with a problem as complex as this and grapple with it without messing up.
And people thought it was a kind of institution-wide problem.
Dark energy is one of the most pressing problems in astrophysics today and, given its role in identifying the problem, you would have thought it would be the US announcing such a mission.
The problem is that brown dwarfs have been discovered orbiting other stars, and it is thought that planets can sometimes be ejected from their natal solar systems as a result of gravitational interactions, and may thus be found drifting in space.
The consultant, lazy and in a hurry to invoice his services, thought he could solve a real problem with an advertising gimmick.
And after I read it I thought, why did I ever think that was a problem?
The main purpose of thought experiments, though, is to show that a problem is soluble in principle and so to encourage others to try to solve it in practice.
And a little publicity and financial incentive gets some of the greatest untapped minds to start thinking about a problem they may have never thought they could solve, until now.
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In our view, the problem is more exactly the internalisation of shareholder value pressures, and to illustrate the point we present below a kind of thought experiment about a different Apple (without shareholder value) which was willing to accept lower margins and employ more US blue collar labour.
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