At the heart of Traub's complaint, and his diagnosis, though, is the now quaint-sounding problem of short-termism.
The big wrong at the moment is a short circuit, a simple-sounding problem in the delicate wiring of a solar vehicle.
People don't like to hear that they may have a different, stranger-sounding problem that can't be fixed with a pill — though this often changes once patients see the results of their sleep studies.
Dry-sounding problems like managing fuel burn rate and ensuring your vector sends you into orbit rather than back to the ground in a mass of fiery debris achieve a thrilling and highly combustible reality when brought to life on a computer.
The filter design and selection process is illustrated by an example of a sounding rocket stabilization problem.
Misleading reflections caused by the presence of undersea canyons or mountains plus variations in the speed of sound through water caused by differences in temperature, depth, and salinity limit the accuracy of echo sounding, though these problems can be met somewhat by crossing and recrossing the same area.
However, artificial source variants such as deep direct current (DC) resistivity sounding pose logistic problems for target depths greater than a couple of kilometers and in inaccessible areas.
A lot of people don't have a problem with sounding natural in the studio.
Besides looking professional, there is the problem of sounding professional — which can be hard when the noises we associate with home, like barking dogs, lawnmowers and the occasional child's outburst, crop up during an important call.
If Sanders can incorporate the Iraq Syndrome as part and parcel of his core message on vast and growing inequalities and hyper-elitism, he may solve his problem of sounding rather defensive and tentative on geopolitics.
