They don't consider deficits of that size (3.6% of gross domestic product) a problem, particularly if they're financing pro-growth tax cuts.
On the other hand, iTunes in the cloud, fixing Siri, competing in maps, finding another complex product-service problem that will unlock long term revenues.
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Surprisingly, the luxury-goods business is having a strong year, largely thanks to demand in China, the Gulf and other emerging economies. (Indeed, things have been so good that perfume-makers face a new product-liability problem in Russia, where oligarchs' girlfriends buy dozens of bottles in order to bathe in a fragrance, unaware that this can be deadly.) Japan, which experienced similar excesses in the 1980s, still accounts for around a quarter of global luxury-goods sales.
The U.S. consumer electronics industry is battling a behemoth, escalating and unsustainable problem: product returns.
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Their challenge was marketing a product to solve a problem people didn't realize they had and weren't searching for.
For medical devices, delays are a big problem because product cycles are fast.
The company is iRise and their eponymous product which makes the problem of communicating applications requirements to management and development orders of magnitude simpler and easier.
But the product itself faces the same problem as the toaster: cooking grains is a fairly simple task, how do you build a product that can do it better and therefore be worth a premium to consumers?
Customers can ask questions if they have a problem with a product.
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For example, what visibility or value will a customer enjoy if she tells an employee about a way to improve the product or correct a service problem?
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Compounding the problem is the product nature of Groupon deals.
The industry support "forms a bridge between the public and private sectors and will assist Interpol and each of its 190 member countries to more effectively tackle the problem of medical product counterfeiting, " Interpol Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said in a statement.
Instead of following the textbook approach to starting a business find out what the market needs and build it Libin decided to build a product that would solve his problem and then assume that there would be a market for it.
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There are problems with process, Pandiscio writes, but the real problem is with the product.
They will hire salespeople to convince buyers that they have an unmet, never-before-realized business problem that only their product can fix.
IR Both you and my colleague Jeffrey Sachs agree that a lack of access to new medicines, protected by product patents, is a big problem.
Again, these reports do not represent any conclusion by the FDA about whether the product is responsible for a health problem, Ward said in an e-mail.
She says that picking patterns and materials, customizing them to her own needs, and then producing a finished product was an excellent introduction to problem solving.
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Again, these reports do not represent any conclusion by the FDA about whether the product is responsible for a health problem, Ward said in a March e-mail.
The aging population initially posed a problem for hair-product makers.
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Later, I hear the multibillion-dollar company uses the work I did to fix the problem with the first product as a case study in how to do this sort of work.
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For medical critics of the product, that is precisely the problem: if firms selling herbal remedies are able to make dramatic, unsubstantiated claims with impunity, they have enormous power to generate demand for their products without having to worry about mundane details like safety or efficacy.
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With time, Shih said, it could have evolved into a product that could have helped solve the problem.
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Gores, who bought the Pistons in 2011, can remedy part of the problem by putting a decent product on the court.
That level of invention, which solves a generally unrecognized problem to create a new product category, or user experience, can be difficult to recognize in the conceptual stage.
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Some consumer groups are too quick to assume the only safe alternative to a problem is to ban a product, and they are not receptive to any innovative fix a manufacturer may develop.
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The product works well and solves a real problem for anyone who wants to watch video while away from a high-speed Internet connection without having to pay to purchase or rent programs from iTunes or other download services.
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Another Apple-related example: Raz asked what Facebook would do about allowing iPhone users to upload videos from their smartphones to the social network, given that the videos currently play on Flash, an Adobe product that Apple very publicly has a problem with.
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