Both high costs and low satisfaction share a root cause: Poorly designed medical infrastructure.
In fact, economists have suggested that optimism was a root cause of the financial downfall of 2008.
We also know that the walls of these silos can be barriers to innovation, as well as a root cause of business dysfunction.
Clumsy fliers spilling Diet Coke and coffee on plane floors and seats, causing "gunked-up" seat-locking mechanisms, hardly seem to constitute a root cause.
If there's a root cause for this at times self-contradictory and insincere approach, it might be the company's CEO and president, Robert A. Klayman.
The biggest technical challenge Boeing faced in addressing safety concerns raised by the incidents was that there was no quick identification of a root cause.
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The best path forward may be subject to debate between reasonable people, but the scientific data are not: sugar-sweetened beverages are a root cause of obesity.
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It was designed to attack and remove what some researchers believe is a root cause of Alzheimer's, the tell-tale amyloid plaques that build up in patients' brains.
They ignore the fact that crises always have a root cause, and they treat crises as if they just drop in from the sky at any moment.
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Several prominent economists now reckon that inequality was a root cause of the financial crisis: politicians tried to counter the growing gap between rich and poor by encouraging poorer folk to take on more credit (see article).
Richey: That's the other half of what we see as a root cause of the past decade of flat or negative returns for the typical U.S.-based equity investor: they've been seriously under-exposed to International stocks over the past decade.
They offer a different root cause for the government's contortions: they blame Tony Blair, the former prime minister, for offering a referendum on the constitution in the first place.
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"Cheshire police recently did a root-cause analysis of more than 2, 000 incidents in a 12 month period and found they were linked to alcohol, drugs, driving and mental health issues, " she said.
But the root cause was a credit mania, courtesy of the Federal Reserve.
Once they hammer out a plan to attack the root cause of the problem, they will be on their way to reclaiming prosperity.
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Impressive as these savings seem, they are merely symptoms, not the underlying root cause of a medical system whose costs are out of control.
However our Executive Medical Director felt that a more detailed review, including root cause analysis, was required.
First, these women are much more career-minded than normal. ( Jennifer Aniston's career ambitions are, according to a thousand tabloid stories, the root cause of her split from Brad Pitt.) They are also financially independent.
Over the past 40 years, the airline industry has fallen into a pattern of cyclical bankruptcies, the root cause of which is our unstable dollar.
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The root cause of these errors is a focus on the dumbest idea in the world: maximizing shareholder value.
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More important, jobs are a symptom of our problem, not the root cause. (However, politicians and much of the media are obsessed with counting jobs.) We have a demand problem and a wealth creation problem.
Being a successful trend spotter requires an understanding of the root cause of change as well as the infrastructure that must be built to support the change.
It is widely agreed that the root and cause of honour killing is a complex, historical phenomenon which has no justification in Islam's holy book, the Koran, and which has also been known to occur elsewhere in the world and among other religions.
One possibility is that these various C suite job proposals are bandages on the root cause of the problem, namely, a focus on short-term financial goals.
The bigger deal is that this is the same rocket that launches Russia's Soyuz spacecraft, which carry crew to and from ISS. The rocket will be grounded until the root cause of the failure is determined and a fix is put into place.
In fact, Salnoske, leveraging his skills as an expert in diagnosing problems to identify that the company needed someone who would oversee a broader variety of divisions of the company to get to the root cause of an issue that had been labeled as an operations problem, as he explains at some length herein.
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The issue is a concern to Shaw and he suggests that over-training could be the root cause of the problem.
When I was meeting with a patient, my medical knowledge and intuition would generate a set of questions I wanted to ask the patient to get at the root cause of the condition.
The FAA announcement comes on the same day the National Transportation Safety Board told reporters it had identified the exact battery cell that first short-circuited on a plane in Boston in early January, but still had not determined the root cause of the electrical short.
While final root cause analysis is in progress, this issue appears to be due to a time calculation that was incorrect for the leap year.
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