Victoria's example shows how so much change can be down to small, practical solutions that address a precise problem.
Your recent article on elderly living options [ "More Elderly Living Options, at a Price," Oct. 8] noted the precise problem facing our elderly -- the high cost of housing.
Wolfgang Blau, Guardian director of digital strategy (and a former editor-in-chief of Die Zeit's web offering) raised that precise problem recently at a conference in Perugia.
Dr. Arthur Pappas, the Red Sox physician, explained that an arthroscopic procedure to determine the precise problem "perhaps would delay" Seaver's recovery rather than hasten it.
The main purpose is to gain familiarity with the social phenomena involved, in order to formulate a more precise problem.
Nor are we faced here with the precise problem with which we were confronted in Hines v. Davidowitz, 312 U.S. 52, 61 S.Ct.
Future steps towards more precise problem formulation including the consideration of an enzyme-catalysed bio-chemical reaction and its impact on the fluidic properties are discussed.
"We ran into this precise problem in August, when we had 400 megawatts of power in Maine and no way of getting it to that part of Connecticut," Mr. Poirot said.
But when agency inspectors went to Boston Scientific in mid-2005, they could find no evidence that the device maker was adequately tracking reports from doctors about that precise problem, a warning issued last year by the agency shows.
