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But Kapczynski conceded that the report “does too much to encourage silence” and “too broadly casts forms of collective speech as problematic.”

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ADUs can be convenient for elderly parents to live in and/or weekend guests to stay in, but renting this unit out could be problematic.

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Vision, dental and hearing costs have long been problematic for seniors, because those services are not covered under traditional Medicare.

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The masque’s subject is problematic: Some beautiful African water nymphs—portrayed by the queen and her ladies-in-waiting in blackface—wish to travel to Britain to be made white.

Even if the official assessment is worse than thought, productivity - a measure of the output of the economy per hour worked - has long been problematic.

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