They picked up a newspaper one day early in their careers to pass the time, found the puzzle and tried to solve it.

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As a reporter you come to learn that, as time moves on, it becomes harder to solve a crime.

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These additions are usually done to solve network access problems that due to time, cost, or manpower issues IT might not be able to easily solve.

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This is a mathematical problem, and eCourier spent some time hunting around for someone able to solve it.

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"Given the amount of money involved it will take time to solve these problems and find ways to pay people back, " he said, adding that most of the currency traders who used Bitfloor were sticking with him.

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Given the magnitude of the housing bubble and the huge inventory of unsold homes in places like Nevada, it's going to take time to solve these challenges.

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The most likely scenario is Greece will get the support it needs to buy a few years of time to solve its problems.

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Even immediate passage of the Bush plan would not solve all their problems straight away, because it would take time to put the plan into place.

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It is, then, a fantastic time to consider what corporations are doing to solve these issues and take a leadership role in their resolution.

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DeLarge is eventually jailed for murder, during which time he undergoes an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - it causes him to suffer nausea whenever he contemplates an act of violence.

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