1.   Despite euphoria over Intel and the ambitious hopes of creating a high-tech paradise, Costa Rica still must overcome nagging problems endemic to other Latin American countries.

2.   Kidnapping has been such an endemic problem that gun ownership is a given for most Basilan residents.

3.   Selten admitted that using game theory does not always produce correct results, a problem endemic to much of economics.

4.   Some said that speeding has become an endemic problem in the neighborhood.

5.   Such mistreatment seems to reflect an endemic problem in the INS.

6.   The International Monetary Fund and other lenders have demanded for years that the government crack down on the endemic problem of unpaid taxes.

7.   The International Monetary Fund and other lenders have demanded the government crack down on the endemic problem of unpaid taxes for years.

8.   The report urged greater involvement of morally conscious Christian laity to eradicate corruption, an endemic problem in Latin America.

9.   However, as in past cleanup drives, officials at the very top and their relatives remain untouched, and no one expects an end to the endemic problem.

10.   Jeannine Guthrie of Human Rights Watch-Asia in New York says bonded labor is an endemic problem in South Asia.