The problem that confronted Dr Whiten and Dr Boesch was how to disentangle which of chimpanzees' many behaviour patterns are genetically instinctive, which are learnt by individuals in isolation (and so are not cultural, because not copied from others) and which are culturally transmitted (by animals copying one another).
This is the problem that has confronted engineers trying to make America's power grid less prone to the kind of load imbalances that plunged the north-east into darkness last month.
The traditional approach we use when confronted with a problem is to think our way into action.
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Finland, which has no such windfall, has confronted its pensions problem by, among other things, raising the retirement age.
Doctors in the office are often confronted by the problem, and patients and doctors both are frustrated by the lack of knowledge.
"Even if we are confronted with a problem, we must remember that the selection of a leader must be a democratic process, " Information Minister and government spokesman Mike Mulongoti said.
The problem confronting TiVo is one that has confronted other consumer-electronics pioneers before it.
Mr Heckman confronted the sample-selection problem: in terms of the examples just given, for instance, the effect on the results if the workers who answered the questionnaire differed in important ways from those who did not.
The problem for the electorate is that when directly confronted, she simply does not answer and claims to be the victim of a dirty campaign.
When we frame everything from the difficult to the life-threatening as a challenge to be met rather than as a threat to avoided or confronted, we just naturally tackle the problem before us.
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The problem with being reactive is that your competition is not confronted with that same dilemma and can march forward without hesitation.
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