As it turns out, they often have good reasons for wanting in but those have to do more with the dysfunctional structure of the system than with inherent advantages of DB pensions.
The government would still determine the size of the welfare state and the structure of the tax system (eg, it would decide how progressive the income-tax schedule should be).
The potential structure of the welfare system in an independent Scotland is to be considered by an expert group set up by the Scottish government.
According to the American Medical association (AMA), nearly 200 billion dollars is spent on defensive medicine annually, a direct consequence of the current structure of the malpractice litigation system.
Sports match-ups affect civic pride, but the derivatives battle affects the structure and stability of the financial system.
If you keep this up, someday I might try filling you in on the structure of the Iowa caucus system.
The first is about the structure of the health care system itself.
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But the experts suggested that the very structure of the U.S. intelligence system may have to be looked at, especially because of the case that seems to be developing as the massive investigation into Tuesday's attacks continues.
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These have to do with the structure of entitlements system itself, and aim at controlling costs.
And while many have been trained on the linear menu structure of the iPod, the Sansa Connect's hybrid navigation system is a taste that would be easier to acquire if, for example, all music-related features were grouped together.
The isolation cones placed strategically in a tripod pattern at the bottom corners of the sound system reduce the vibration frequencies and provide the most stable supporting structure regardless of the surface on which it rests.
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The political structure of the Netherlands Antilles is a parliamentary system and has two governmental levels.
Although the structure of Brazil's state and federal courts seems similar to that of the United States, its legal system is built on quite different foundations.
The real problem may be the fundamental structure of the U.S. corporate tax system.
But can it thrive under the monolithic structure of a national healthcare system?
Yet, scientists and journalists alike are frequently too quick to make sweeping generalizations about the behavior and structure of the brain, often forgetting that the brain is an incredibly complex, interrelated system.
The legal system in Spain has a problem with the underlying legal structure of a UK pension scheme, which means that it is not possible to complete the legal process of transferring a property into it.
The bill will replace the so-called tripartite structure, introduced by the previous Labour government, under which oversight of the banking system is shared between the Bank of England, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the Treasury.
Not only does this second-guess the will of locally elected politicians, but with 20 per cent surplus places in the Welsh education system, it's also acted as a brake on rationalising the structure of schools in many areas - currently one in two, a staggering 50 per cent of all local reorganisation proposals end up on Ministers' desks.
If we don't tend to each part of this system, we imperil the whole structure.
In the coming weeks The Economist will set out its own views on how to reform not just the electoral system but also the House of Lords, party funding and other bits of the political structure.
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The innovation is in the engineering of a racking system and floating structure that can accommodate water rising and falling.
The reasons for this lie in the structure of technical teaching in India's higher-education system.
And when I was in Birmingham, I heard about how the police service was using that structure, and a system of street champions for every street in every ward, to help make sure there was local intelligence and local views being fed in to setting local police priorities.
As I have stated on numerous occasions, I am firm believer that the current structure of the amateur draft in baseball needs to be revised and a required slot money system has to be implemented.
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The successful bidder, GoalControl, believes that one of its strengths is the fact that neither the ball nor goal structure need to be changed for the system to work -- with referees receiving a vibration and optical signal in their watches to inform them of a successful score.
Clinton and Blair were introducing individual market mechanisms into an overall state structure, foreign objects into a preexisting beast, in a way that aimed to tame the worst excesses of each system, but did not radically redefine either.
Alongside the unnecessary and intrusive charter of fundamental rights and the mad idea of giving the undeserving European Parliament more powers, Lisbon improves the EU's voting system, partly sorts out a muddled foreign-policy structure and creates a permanent presidency of the European Council in place of the present six-month, rotating one.
The solution is a second operating system, devoted to the design and implementation of strategy, that uses an agile, networklike structure and a very different set of processes.
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"The structure we are proposing today will help to deliver better outcomes for consumers and to strengthen and improve the resilience of the financial system in the future, " he concluded.
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