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I really don't think so; I'm not keen on getting political here, but I think that replacing one form of racial keenness (racism) with another (antiracist hypersensitivity) is a juvenile, shortsighted non-solution to the problem.
Savage Kingdom SVGL 2009
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Substituting "then" is the lazy or tone-deaf writer's non-solution to the problem of too many "ands" on the page.
it puzzles me nathreee 2010
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All for the sake of producing a non-solution to what is probably a non-problem.
Rent-Seeking and Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As a liberal and a progressive I am angry about the current state of affairs that leaves us with what I can only describe as a disingenuously ineffective non-solution to the dramatic state of economic affairs that tens of millions of Americans now find themselves in: namely, chronically un- or under-employed.
Lance Simmens: Mr. President, It's Up to You Lance Simmens 2010
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The same applies to her gas price populist non-solution!
Polls: Clinton gets lead in Indiana; Obama holds in North Carolina 2008
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Mass deportation of millions of workers and their families is a phony non-solution that is both impractical and un-American.
Robert Creamer: The Arizona of 2010 Is the Alabama of 1963 2010
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Mass deportation of millions of workers and their families is a phony non-solution that is both impractical and un-American.
Robert Creamer: The Arizona of 2010 is the Alabama of 1963 2010
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As a liberal and a progressive I am angry about the current state of affairs that leaves us with what I can only describe as a disingenuously ineffective non-solution to the dramatic state of economic affairs that tens of millions of Americans now find themselves in: namely, chronically un- or under-employed.
Lance Simmens: Mr. President, It's Up to You Lance Simmens 2010
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The fix, for the most part, has been to have it only work when the car is immobile, but that's kind of a non-solution.
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People who care about the earth have known from day two that its a net-loser and a non-solution.
Global Warming and the Minefield of Unintended Consequences - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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