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With continual efforts to make improvements, we hope that this means that public health practitioners and policymakers, no matter where they’re from, what their political views might be, or what their personal ideas are, this is something we can come together on because this is an actionable place where we can make a difference in our obesity epidemic, which has felt so just intractable and so difficult to overcome, now, we can think of this not as a foregone conclusion, we can make a difference. – Aruna Chandran	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The new NCAA policy sounds a lot like the old one, the board hasn't resolved the intractable balancing between fairness, playing safety and inclusion. They failed women by not prioritizing fairness. – Nancy Hogshead-Makar	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Secretary Kerry's wrong about the facts, wrong about the law, and sadly Secretary Kerry's been wrong about how to use diplomacy to keep America safe. Secretary Kerry helped negotiate a nuclear agreement that worked to solve an intractable problem. The world supported it then and supports it still. We'd hope the President would focus on solving foreign policy problems for America instead of attacking his predecessors for theater. – Matt Summers	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Office of American Innovation will bring a creative and strategic approach to many critical issues and intractable problems that affect Americans’ quality of life, we have an opportunity to identify and implement solutions by combining internal resources with the private sector’s innovation and creativity, enabling the federal government to better serve Americans. – Jared Kushner	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The president was rightly focused on how do we move forward from what may be simply an intractable disagreement at this point. – Rex Tillerson	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This is a fundamental change in how our city contends with a situation that has been intractable for so many years. – De Blasio	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The aforementioned problems look intractable. – Gary Ross	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Wine in the U.S. in general is expensive. It’s also true of California. In many cases you can get an old world version for much less. That’s a somewhat intractable problem…It’s just expensive to do business in the United States. – Karen MacNeil	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
America has intractable problems and it’s going to take a transformational leader to fix them, rand Paul is going to be the bold, transformational figure in this race. The reported hire comes as Paul's potential rivals for the Republican nomination begin jostling for position. The Washington Post reported Monday that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the GOP's nominee in 2012, had begun reaching out to former advisers, donors, and allies about the possibility of a third presidential bid. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who filed paperwork to form a political action committee last week, will travel to California later this week for fundraising events. A memo sent to Rand Paul donors and allies touted Englander as a man who had helped elect a Republican governor in President Barack Obama's home state, which the president. – Chip Englander	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again. – Rogers Turrentine	added by anonymous 14 years ago

With continual efforts to make improvements, we hope that this means that public health practitioners and policymakers, no matter where they’re from, what their political views might be, or what their personal ideas are, this is something we can come together on because this is an actionable place where we can make a difference in our obesity epidemic, which has felt so just intractable and so difficult to overcome, now, we can think of this not as a foregone conclusion, we can make a difference.

– Aruna Chandran

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The new NCAA policy sounds a lot like the old one, the board hasn't resolved the intractable balancing between fairness, playing safety and inclusion. They failed women by not prioritizing fairness.

– Nancy Hogshead-Makar

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Secretary Kerry's wrong about the facts, wrong about the law, and sadly Secretary Kerry's been wrong about how to use diplomacy to keep America safe. Secretary Kerry helped negotiate a nuclear agreement that worked to solve an intractable problem. The world supported it then and supports it still. We'd hope the President would focus on solving foreign policy problems for America instead of attacking his predecessors for theater.

– Matt Summers

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Office of American Innovation will bring a creative and strategic approach to many critical issues and intractable problems that affect Americans’ quality of life, we have an opportunity to identify and implement solutions by combining internal resources with the private sector’s innovation and creativity, enabling the federal government to better serve Americans.

– Jared Kushner

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The president was rightly focused on how do we move forward from what may be simply an intractable disagreement at this point.

– Rex Tillerson

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This is a fundamental change in how our city contends with a situation that has been intractable for so many years.

– De Blasio

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The aforementioned problems look intractable.

– Gary Ross

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Wine in the U.S. in general is expensive. It’s also true of California. In many cases you can get an old world version for much less. That’s a somewhat intractable problem…It’s just expensive to do business in the United States.

– Karen MacNeil

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

America has intractable problems and it’s going to take a transformational leader to fix them, rand Paul is going to be the bold, transformational figure in this race. The reported hire comes as Paul's potential rivals for the Republican nomination begin jostling for position. The Washington Post reported Monday that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the GOP's nominee in 2012, had begun reaching out to former advisers, donors, and allies about the possibility of a third presidential bid. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who filed paperwork to form a political action committee last week, will travel to California later this week for fundraising events. A memo sent to Rand Paul donors and allies touted Englander as a man who had helped elect a Republican governor in President Barack Obama's home state, which the president.

– Chip Englander

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again.

– Rogers Turrentine

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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