And we think of any kind of problem or phenomenon as naturally following the distribution where there's a few people at one end who have no problem, a few people at the other who have, you know, a kind of little bit of a problem, and then there's a big broad middle and the curve goes up.

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There appears, in particular, to be a problem with a phenomenon known as genetic imprinting.

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Ms. KELLER: I think that as the news about General Motors evolved, I think it became more and more apparent to the employees that this is not a short-term phenomenon or problem at General Motors that was just going to go away.

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The problem of retirement is a relatively new phenomenon, with the first generation of full-time professionals coming to the end of their careers.

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Because of the next phenomenon which is, to me, the big problem when it comes to shariah compliant finance.

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One problem, though: Not everyone is convinced ocular dominance is a real phenomenon.

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This is symptomatic of the problem with virtual manufacturing: it is still, despite its promise, a sporadic and haphazard phenomenon.

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Yet to understand the depth of Russia's crime problem, it is important to shed one big misapprehension: that it is a wholly new phenomenon.

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As Reich points out in his video, the decline in the American middle class has led to a strange phenomenon, whereby the victims of the policy identify politically with the folks who caused the problem.

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