Alas, the next best alternative is also rife with problems of cost, liability, and politics.

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Government ownership of roadways is rife with problems, to be sure, but the case for government-operated roads is much stronger than that for government-operated last mile fiber connections.

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Another debacle, this time involving DNA testing: Josiah Sutton served four and a half years for rape after the Houston Crime Lab tied him to crime-scene DNA. The lab was later found to be rife with problems, including a leaky roof that let rainwater contaminate evidence.

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The national sales tax is rife with problems which its evangelists refuse to acknowledge, such as the extremely problematic treatment of interest paid on taxed purchases, the way in which it turns churches into taxable entities, and the ways in which sales taxes in Europe have become progressively more complex as time has gone on.

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As for the city itself, Detroit is still rife with financial problems, and its 700, 000 population rattles around in a place sized for 2 million.

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It was rife with methodological problems and obvious ideological biases.

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"Eventful" may be a horribly euphemistic adjective to describe the last 12 months in the stock market, rife with bailouts, bankruptcies, credit problems and collapses of major financial institutions.

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