This increase, the poll found, was in large part due to wasteful and inefficient discovery.
The third peculiarity involves the large and inefficient nature of the muni market itself.
All that providing subsidy now does is lock people into expensive and inefficient technology.
As a result some industries, especially labour-intensive ones such as retailing, stay fragmented and inefficient.
Today's answer to the hard middle is direct mail, which is expensive and inefficient.
The rubbish business, much like sewerage, is often ill-served by corrupt and inefficient utilities.
Guatemalan stability seems to be seriously threatened by organized crime and inefficient, corrupt and underpaid police forces.
This is because, even by the standards of the industry, Europe's steel market is opaque and inefficient.
Law firm websites were underdeveloped and out-of-date, and locating and vetting legal experts was time-consuming and inefficient.
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After that, suspects can count on Brazil's overburdened and inefficient judiciary to keep them out of jail.
Divergent standards, protocols, and skill sets among nations have resulted in systems that are complex, duplicative and inefficient.
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But since Indonesia is a big and inefficient country, it has not been possible to centralise back-office operations.
Our outdated and inefficient immigration system is a huge contributor to the shortage.
The Argentine legal system, as revealed here, will make you grateful for the somewhat haphazard and inefficient American version.
It should also bring greater attention to 401k investment options, which are often costly and inefficient active mutual funds.
He also criticized Bradley's universal health care plan as too costly and inefficient.
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"Heathrow airport is over-priced, over-rewarded and inefficient, and these proposals, which will result in an increase in prices, " he said.
Millions of pounds were wasted on England's rapidly growing academies programme because of over-complex and inefficient funding systems, MPs say.
The disparity is partly a function of Citigroup's overlapping and inefficient computer systems, some of which date to the 1970s.
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Liu Yongxing reckons the casualties will be the small and inefficient feed producers that control about 80% of the domestic market.
The lack of financial accountability leads to leakage, mismanagement of resources and inefficient use and it will ultimately affect quality learning.
For companies, it offers an efficient way to pre-interview candidates and cuts down on time-consuming in-person meetings and inefficient phone screenings.
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The UAW would be equally upset, particularly since bankruptcy might force an end to extravagant pension benefits and inefficient workplace practices.
The bad news is that Eircom was stuck with the bloated and inefficient work force that is typical of a government-owned company.
By allowing buyers and sellers to link up electronically, these companies eliminate a costly and inefficient system of telephone brokers and middlemen.
The threat of backlash is an argument for boosting the region's still puny and inefficient investment in health, education and social services.
However, in practice multiple applications create a fairly disjointed and inefficient experience.
This just might the waning of an aggravating and inefficient era in air travel and the beginning of a faster, easier one.
Once dominated by poorly managed and inefficient state-run firms that were protected behind trade barriers, now it is globally integrated and profitable.
But anyone hoping for a truly radical revamp of the country's high-quality but hugely expensive and inefficient public health service will be glum.
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