It's become the bogeyman responsible for ecological disaster, climate instability, nuclear weapons and potential designer plagues.
They caution, though, that there are important differences between virtual plagues and real ones.
As a more general point, this lack of cost consciousness plagues advancements in healthcare.
Now one researcher hopes to show the malware that plagues PCs in all its evil elegance.
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The new system, Kim thinks, will help overcome the regionalism that plagues Korean politics.
We were talking about epidemics, pandemics, and plagues, but we were watching the woman.
But it does seem to avoid covering Islamist incitement against Jews (and Christians) like the plagues.
But the problem that plagues the health care system is not just a problem for the uninsured.
To disenfranchised youths facing such region-wide plagues as unemployment and housing shortages, radical Islam has sometimes appealed.
Its resources are limited, its tribes fiercely independent and well-armed, its plagues of poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition persistent.
In other words, what plagues the two big health programs is what plagues the system as a whole.
In 2000 Sachs started pushing in speeches and journal articles for a worldwide fund for treating poor-country plagues.
But that also meant the rise of hierarchies, inequality, oppression, authoritarianism, and the other plagues of modern life.
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Settlement would bring the matter to a close and eliminate the continued uncertainty that plagues the housing market.
Struggling to find a work-life balance is a problem that plagues many workers, especially those who are self-employed.
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Pricing is one of the strongest influences of marketing on obesity and explains why obesity mainly plagues lower-income consumers.
But he disliked the plagues, killings and other violence scattered throughout the Bible.
Weak delegation plagues most of us, and frustrates us by producing substandard outcomes.
Another missing part of the story is one that plagues evaluation efforts of programs in all schools right now.
That disconnect may be one source of the annoying spam that plagues inboxes.
Sadique, your grasp of reason and logic is typical of the fanaticism that plagues the public image of Islam.
Ptolemy could not resist filling blanks on his maps with theoretical conceptions, something that plagues exploration to this day.
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And that, in the end, is the problem that plagues all these books.
Allow creative innovations in technology to solve our fiscal, environmental and social plagues.
Twenty years later, the butcher of William Buckley still plagues the free world.
While Fiat's problems are largely self-inflicted, it has also been hammered by the overcapacity that plagues the entire car industry.
Abandoned hotel towers in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi are monuments to the failure of follow-through that plagues Vietnam.
Adding to these concerns is the lack of transparency that many regulators and consumers alike feel plagues the financial regulatory system.
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Unlike much of the iPhone photography market, app-based intervalometers lack a certain kitsch that plagues the likes of Instagram or iPhone lenses.
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Gulmina and Fatima were given extensive treatment to help them deal with the pain that still plagues them, and made huge progress.
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