Members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law recently held a hearing on three of the bills, aimed at fixing the problem on behalf of state and local governments--which depend on sales taxes to support police, fire, and other crucial services--and calming fears about the negative effect of e-commerce on their tax bases.
The firm's associate director, Andrew Howis, said the latest study was just one of several efforts under way aimed at tackling the problem of stray light.
Seth Diamond, commissioner of the city's Department of Homeless Services, said the growing number of homeless people on the subways is a "great concern" and a new infusion of resources is aimed at helping fix the problem.
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Each of these transactions was aimed at resolving a particular problem for the seller.
It follows four years of research and development aimed at finding a natural method of tackling the problem of sea lice.
Rather than being aimed at solving a computing problem, Yurke says the tweezers were just a way of making a spontaneously assembling miniature tool.
Because this new round of quantitative easing is aimed at easing one problem above all others: the first dose of UK QE now needs a cash injection all of its own.
And it didn't take long to uncover the biggest problem with the rebuilding plans: New, more stringent building codes aimed at making homes better able to withstand hurricane forces.
The problem is that government outlays aimed at producing these benefits eventually reach a point of diminishing returns.
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To that extent, the government's proposals are aimed at a problem whose importance is much less than it was.
Carnegie Mellon's CREATE Lab is working on a few interesting solutions to the problem of localizing pollution data with a trio of devices aimed at making the process accessible and affordable for regular people.
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The emergence of cross-screen marketing is one of several new forms of technology aimed at solving a fundamental problem with mobile ads: It is harder to target people on smartphones than on PCs.
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