More, each party offered something that went a step beyond defining the problem.

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At the risk of making enemies, I'll take a stab at defining the problem.

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The shift and reset in thinking applies to finding the solution, more than in defining the problem.

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They will try to wiggle out by defining the problem differently or changing the milestones or taking you out to dinner.

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But after spending this week talking to Washington insiders, I heard several express the hope that the panel could at least achieve two important goals: Defining the problem and broadly framing future solutions.

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The problem of defining the category of beers covered by this book was not easily solved.

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"It runs away from the problem of defining the behaviour" the bill is supposed to modify, he added.

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In order to fix the problem, you have to start by defining it.

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The problem is that in a market yielding 2% and with the financial services industry and most investors defining long term as next week, those securities having high yields (above say 4% for anything other than a utility) are seen as having big problems.

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When this problem surfaced in the NHL in 2004-05, it was only by increasing transparency and jointly defining what constitutes team revenues that owners and players eventually reached a deal.

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