"We feel we have not been supported with all these problems and we have yet to hear from BT, " he said.

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But I really get put out by people who, with all these problems in the world, spend so much time getting in a lather about things like a sugary Hostess cupcake one day, and then jumping on their soapbox to bemoan its extinction the next.

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Can a free trade deal with Europe solve all these problems, saving globalization?

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The dragging of feet, the deep underlying problems facing the Euro, the impossible task of managing the disparate economies and political systems within the euro-zone - these are all problems with deep, and perhaps intractable, roots.

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Remember, people were worried about what might happen with all these surpluses, and whether it would create problems in the financial markets.

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As is the case with all high-tech solutions to basic problems, these sensors aren't foolproof.

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How on earth can the stock market be going up (we just had the biggest one-week rally in two years) with these imposing and potentially long-lasting problems all around us?

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The physical decay is evident and these areas suffer all the social problems associated with inner-city poverty.

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These problems are all well known in the academic literature and have been dealt with in various ways, making the CRS study unpublishable in any peer-reviewed academic journal.

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