But now houses around 1m of them and offices lie empty, the builders' productivity has plummeted, and their woes look set to continue for at least another year.Another, perhaps more intractable, problem for the east has been the exodus of many of its brightest and best.
Second, the good news is that we have learned that the famine is not an intractable problem for the region.
Topics to date have included the causes and prevention of cholera (an intractable problem for the country for the past 15 years), the potential impact on crops and wildlife of the Cahora Bassa hydroelectric dam now under construction, benefits of unleaded gasoline (Mozambique is currently phasing out leaded gas), the need to conserve water, and tips for general sanitation.
It involves a method of determining whether a problem is solvable by computer and is itself one of seven intractable problems for which the Clay Mathematics Institute in Boston 10 years ago offered a prize of $1 million to the first person to find a solution. .
Such rapid growth, it argues, will create intractable problems for people's health and the environment as the waste, much of it containing toxic material, decays.
By Elizabeth Kiem NEW YORK, USA, 15 January 2009 – UNICEF's flagship publication, 'The State of the World's Children 2009' – launched today in South Africa – addresses maternal mortality, one of the most intractable problems for development work.
With variations, these are wars amongst the people, and they present seeming intractable problems for conventional forces.
The dead spruce forest of Alaska is also a lesson, to some ecologists, of how warmer temperatures present intractable problems for living things anchored to a certain area.
— Two trailers in this wealthy beach town stand as testament to an increasingly intractable problem for localities across the country: where to let sex offenders live after prison.
Dynamic economic dispatch has long been an intractable problem for power system operators and the complexity is ever increasing with new participants such as PEV entering in the equation.
