If at some point Congress or the administration does pursue further intellectual property enforcement in legislation, trade agreements or other policy, the key first step should be a clear assessment of the scope and nature of the problem so that the policy is appropriate and makes sense.
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Under the spell of the other policy paradigm captivating American foreign policy elites - anti-colonialism - Bush's leftist opponents never argued that the problem with his policy is that it falsely assumes that Western values are universal values.
This list of prematurely declared "successes" is illustrative of the larger problem with the Clinton security policy record.
There is concern in the sense that this divergent economy poses a problem for the policy makers, namely the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England.
For Turkey, not only has the zero problem with neighbors policy been shattered, but the Arab world opening it had carefully nurtured will be negatively affected if transport trucks must now take a long diversion through Iraq.
The problem with this policy, however, is that it is depressing economic growth, and requires a great deal of financing from the IMF.
Perhaps the problem is bad policy in other areas.
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At this stage in the evolution of the workforce, the problem is surely not policy.
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The other problem is that isolating Gaza undermines the policy of improving life in the West Bank.
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The Environment Protection Agency today announces a new policy to tackle the problem.
One way to look at the problem is through a policy lens.
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The third problem is energy policy and its environmental impact.
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However, the main contributor to the deficit problem was a poorly designed policy that kept consumer rates low even as supply costs climbed, so the true costs were never passed on to the user.
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The big problem is that economics and monetary policy is quite complex and much beyond the understanding of the average person.
But the trick is that not every problem in the world is susceptible to a policy solution.
The bulk of the conversation around water today focuses on the scope of the problem, governance, and policy.
It is also tackling the problem of formulating an energy policy in a nation where anti-nuclear sentiment is running high.
The problem here is that monetary policy is a very blunt instrument.
He still faces the problem of producing a winning policy on U.S. immigration, which is as important to the Mexican government as a successful attack on the drug cartels.
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In short, I worry that his diagnosis of the problem and tactics for gaining policy maker attention might actual undermine his otherwise reasonable suggestions for responding to real cyber threats.
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Second, there is a clear disconnect between the rhetoric used to motivate a policy response and actual diagnoses of the problem.
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Evidence of continuing strength in the housing market poses a problem for the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee this week.
But, as Thomas Mayer and Daniel Gros identified in a recent paper for the Centre for European Policy Studies, this problem can't be solved by simply expanding the EFSF - and not just because it takes so long to do it.
Mr King concludes that the biggest problem for China's current exchange-rate policy is not the yuan itself but the performance of the dollar.
As Reich points out in his video, the decline in the American middle class has led to a strange phenomenon, whereby the victims of the policy identify politically with the folks who caused the problem.
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Marie deYoung, a former Army chaplain, argues the problem is the military's policy of prosecuting only higher-ranking offenders.
Part of the problem is uncertainty about subsidies and policy support from the Chinese government given the upcoming leadership change.
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The problem with evaluating whether a given policy yields a good outcome is our lack of agreement about the right answer.
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Two million are not remotely enough to provide a policy solution to the problem of tens of millions of Americans who will be unable to afford personal assistance in old age or disability.
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