Once again, Africans appear as the victims, lacking the initiative to address their own problems, waiting desperately for others to come to their rescue.
'I was sitting in the veterinarian's with my old cat, who has all sorts of exotic problems, waiting for the doc to come out, and I'm spacing out, thinking, "Red cat 'til I die... that's good.
Underneath the glossy veneer of the Robin Hood analogy and the glamour of Bill Nighy's association with the cause, there is actually a whole mess of problems waiting to spill out after implementation of the FTT, which is slated to start next year for adoptees.
Flooded byways are his nemesis, so the atrocities and aggravations of Hurricane Sandy's aftermath — he had to evacuate his family to the South Slope in Brooklyn — have already had an impact on the projects and problems waiting to be solved on his drafting table.
Just after 7 a.m. yesterday, Wyatt Houston, a 9-year-old in a denim Winnie the Pooh jacket, was sprawled on a cushion on the pavement outside Avery Fisher Hall calculating math problems, waiting behind metal barricades with 2,000 other early risers.
"We are aware of the great number of problems waiting to be solved, most of which weigh heavily and directly on the population," he said, adding later, "Regardless of our great wishes to solve every problem, we cannot spend in excess of what we have".
Individuals with housing problems wait 0.6 more years before they remarry than those without problems.
I don't have any problem waiting".
I see this as a problem waiting to blow up".
"They say we're a problem waiting to happen.
The aide dashed off an e-mail to the New York Racing Association, the state-controlled track operator, warning that the truck's name, the Wandering Dago, was "a problem waiting to blow up".
