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The federal government has pledged $300 million to the intractable border sewage problem, which allows millions of gallons of untreated sewage to pour into the Pacific Ocean.

MORNING REPORT: TURNING BORDER SEWAGE INTO LOCAL WATERVOICE OF SAN DIEGONOVEMBER 20, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO

This effort follows others in Baltimore that have had some success tackling the intractable health problems of violence and overdose deaths.

PEER COACHES WORK TO ADDRESS COVID-19, OTHER HEALTH DISPARITIES IN BALTIMOREMEREDITH COHNNOVEMBER 8, 2020WASHINGTON POST

There’s a long list of other intractable problems in the vision, too.

SAN DIEGO IS A BIG CITY – TODD GLORIA WANTS IT TO ACT LIKE ONEANDREW KEATTSNOVEMBER 6, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO

It’s an ingenious workaround for an otherwise intractable problem.

DISORDER PERSISTS IN LARGER GRAPHS, NEW MATH PROOF FINDSKEVIN HARTNETTNOVEMBER 4, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE

Few problems are longer-term or more intractable than America’s systemic racial inequality.

AI HAS EXACERBATED RACIAL BIAS IN HOUSING. COULD IT HELP ELIMINATE IT INSTEAD?KATIE MCLEANOCTOBER 20, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

This investment fund, while looking at the investments through a distinctly Salesforce lens, is designed to fund startups to help solve intractable social problems, while using its extensive financial resources for the betterment of the world.

SALESFORCE VENTURES LAUNCHES $100M IMPACT FUND TO INVEST IN CLOUD STARTUPS WITH SOCIAL MISSIONRON MILLEROCTOBER 6, 2020TECHCRUNCH

Importantly, the strategy of treating any intractable challenge as if it were a foreign enemy has worked less and less well.

WHY FEMALE LEADERS ARE FARING BETTER THAN ‘WARTIME PRESIDENTS’ AGAINST COVID-19MATTHEWHEIMERAUGUST 20, 2020FORTUNE

A vexatious delay occurred from the intractability of the mules, which persistently refused to allow themselves to be caught.

SOUTH AFRICAN MEMORIESLADY SARAH WILSON

There is a disparity between the inner intractability and the external regularity of these poems.

MILE VERHAERENSTEFAN ZWEIG

Forced by some act of the city to abandon one idea, the next that followed found a new intractability.

THE CITY OF DELIGHTELIZABETH MILLER

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