But overshadowing everything is the problem of money and class.
The disagreement between the two Democrats has exposed the subtexts of race and class that lurk beneath the vexing problem of where, in a crowded city, to put undesirable facilities.
Each party wants to solve the debt problem at the expense of the other class.
The problem, of course, is that class actions need a plaintiff to exist, but the lawyers who bring these cases often consider the client to be a mere vehicle for what is an extraordinarily lucrative way to earn fees.
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There have been two great articles written recently on the problem of the hollowing out of the middle class in America.
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We all know the decline of the middle class is a problem.
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Mr Montgomery's story is in part about the problem of what to do with a working-class paper in a country in which everybody has decided they are middle class.
He last played for Pakistan in 2004, the year in which he suffered a serious knee problem that effectively ruled him out of first-class cricket until this season, when Sussex moved to secure his services.
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The struggles of middle-class families were a big problem long before the recession hit in 2007.
Rising housing costs in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou have exacerbated the problem of rising inequality in China, as the major city centers become unaffordable to many middle class and lower-middle class Chinese.
However, the problem say the bankers is that in the absence of some kind of entente between the banking class and political class, the banks continue to feel discombobulated, and that makes it harder for them to join the common struggle to rebuild our economy (bankers, of course, say this more in sorrow, rather than as a threat).
Romney's core problem is this: He heads a party that must win two-thirds of the white working-class vote in presidential elections to compensate for its weakness in almost every demographic category.
There's also the too-much-of-a-good-thing problem: While plunging stock prices are normally good for the class-action business, this time they may diminish the effectiveness of the argument that fraud was to blame.
The main problem in America's tort system is not class actions, but rather punitive damages and the rest of it.
But the real problem is that so few (only a fifth) of those with the necessary qualifications are from working-class backgrounds to start with.
There're many reasons behind this, including "the too-much-of-a-good-thing" problem: While plunging stock prices are normally good for the class-action business, this time they may diminish the effectiveness of the argument that fraud was to blame.
The problem with this approach is that each country has a different median income, so the definition of what is middle class shifts from place to place.
But it has not cracked the problem of inner-city poverty, nor the biggest social question of the age: how can an excluded social class find its way into the mainstream?
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Democrats have their own class-warfare version of the blame game, in which Wall Street's excesses caused the problem and higher taxes on high-earners are part of the solution.
Byetta is a class of drugs known as GLP-1 analog, which is one approach among many to the problem of getting the body of a diabetic to produce enough of its own insulin (and suppressing its tendency to produce too much sugar).
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The paperback is being made temporarily available at deep discount to support a world class charity, Charitywater, which quietly is solving a problem that kills more people than all forms of violence, including war: the lack of clean and safe drinking water.
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