1.   The former, a longstanding problem in the country, resulted in March in the launching of a much-publicized crackdown.

2.   And advocates for the children are asking a federal judge to hold the city in contempt for failing to resolve the longstanding problem as promised.

3.   And the company is near an agreement with regulators to resolve longstanding problems in manufacturing the medicines it sells.

4.   And that is part of his longstanding problem with the right-wing of his party.

5.   As a specific solution to a longstanding problem at the acoustically poor State Theater, the decision might be thought reasonable.

6.   But forming magnified images of objects using X-rays requires X-ray focusing, a longstanding problem because X-rays pass through most substances without being appreciably deflected.

7.   But longstanding problems have begun to yield to a two-pronged effort.

8.   But the Dagenham plant has had longstanding problems.

9.   Cisneros told the National Press Club that the longstanding problems were almost entirely confined to the multi-family apartment buildings whose mortgages are guaranteed by the federal government.

10.   Confidential army case files obtained by NEWSWEEK record a longstanding problem with rape throughout the service.