The misallocation of savings, the hidden risks, the agency problem with intermediaries, and most importantly the pathological optimism put Dubai in the same box as New York and London.
The presence of greedy family members, hungry for more than their share of earnings and perks from the company, may be worse than the well-studied agency problem of hired managers sucking benefits from the company that should accrue to public shareholders.
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Securitisation created a serious agency problem, leaving loan originators, who were paid up-front, with no incentive to avoid bad credits and every reason to piggyback inappropriate products onto good ones (in one particularly depressing tale, a retired postal worker whose mortgage is almost paid off is switched to an interest-only product that leaves him in danger of losing his home).
Kat Gordon, founder and creative director of Maternal Instinct, an agency of creative problem solvers for marketing to moms, intends to make us aware.
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Professor Michael Jensen of Harvard Business School (along with Bill Meckling of Rochester) did some formidable research now almost 40 years ago on the agency-principal problem in modern corporate America.
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Without a coordinating agency solving the problem for an unlimited number of providers (as credit card companies do with affected merchants), medical victims are stuck with convincing every doctor, clinic, hospital and insurance provider that a stranger is in the room.
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Between them, a tougher regulator and an efficient asset-sales agency quickly brought the problem under control.
Mr Green assured listeners that the UKBA would "get to grips" with bureaucracy, but agreed that the main problem was the agency's ability to keep records.
To try to combat the problem, the agency has twice released better-oxygenated water from Kielder Reservoir into the river in an effort to help salmon move out of the estuary and into the freshwater section of the river.
The amount of money that has been collected to date from preparers is clearly a real problem for the agency if the Court rules that the injunction sticks (though a voluntary designation might mitigate some of those concerns).
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Under an agreement with the Air Force, Wojtalik refused to reveal findings from an investigation of that launch, but he said the Air Force shared its findings with NASA and the agency is confident that the problem will not recur.
The problem is that the agency has been unsuccessful in communicating with the probe.
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Classic examples include a report by Nick Witney, a former head of the EU's defence procurement agency, pointing out that the problem with the EU is not that its member countries spend small sums on defence.
The agency said now it knew what the problem was, it would be working to fix it.
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At the same time, the agency began to tackle a more fundamental problem: some towns are simply in the wrong place.
In addition, sources said Sullivan wants to form an outside panel to examine if the Cartagena incident reflected a problem of wrongdoing embedded in agency culture.
To control the spread of the problem, the Drug Enforcement Agency issued a temporary ban in October on three of the most common drugs mephedrone, methylone and MDPV.
Immigration minister Damian Green responded to the criticisms, telling Today's Evan Davis that the coalition had inherited a "huge problem", yet insisting the agency was "getting better".
When an agency goes on and on about how many awards it has won, how it solved every problem a client threw its way, it will only confirm suspicions that your agency likes talking more than listening.
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The Environment Protection Agency today announces a new policy to tackle the problem.
As I'll explain below, the move would finalize the militarization of the agency - but that's only the biggest problem.
The agency shop was devised to solve the free rider problem, i.e.
This problem can only be avoided through strong agency management.
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While the agency had ultimate responsibility for security that night, the problem was eventually attributed more to a White House failure to check invitations.
"I've heard editors of major trade publications as well as the heads of studios simply say there is no problem, " she told the AFP news agency.
Mr. Miller conceded the agency likely disciplined the wrong employee in one effort to address the problem.
And part of that problem was lodged in MMS and the way that that agency was structured.
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As a federal agency, NASA can't run commercials -- a problem both for rallying broader public support and fostering the next generation of astronauts.
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