root of the trouble
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But economics is still at the root of the trouble.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never before among the overabundant welter of discussion about postwar problems has the central root of the trouble been tapped so accurately.
From Time Magazine Archive
The unrest upset the battered Egyptian economy�the root of the trouble �even more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Intellectuals are apt to consider themselves somewhat more intelligent and sensitive than most people, and in Poe's case, the root of the trouble seems to have been that he was.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is always that which is at the root of the trouble.
From Daisy's Aunt by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
