intractability
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For decades, Baltimore owed the intractability of its vacant housing crisis to simple economics: It cost more to rehab a vacant home than that renovated home could be sold for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
A significant amount of storefronts stand vacant, and complaints about the intractability of problems facing businesses due to a large unhoused population have gone unabated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
Shae McCrystal, a professor of labour law at the University of Sydney, said the strikes would not necessarily be seen as evidence of intractability.
From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2023
As a veteran of this field, I am struck, not by the intractability of high C-section rates but by how much low-hanging fruit exists.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2023
The depth and apparent intractability of the problem became much clearer during the debates surrounding the drafting and ratification of the Constitution.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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