But clocks are bulky and poorly suited to shipboard swaying, which can disrupt their internal mechanisms.
The Shah fell before the forces stirred up by his over-fast and poorly thought-out development plans.
These agencies concluded in 2005 that pension adviser conflicts of interest were pervasive and poorly disclosed.
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They make the journey from Indonesia in boats that are usually overloaded and poorly maintained.
The government is also attempting to reorganise the country's flourishing, and poorly regulated, adoption industry.
After all, the triggering process is unfamiliar and poorly understood, which naturally leads to suspicion.
Last year a new bankruptcy law came into effect, but it is incomplete and poorly understood.
He called the incident poorly conceived and poorly executed and said it should have never happened.
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This dual and poorly-enacted heritage perhaps best explains the curiously confused aspect of our cities.
They make the dangerous journey in boats that are usually overloaded and poorly maintained.
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Others questionnaires are ambiguous and poorly written or may rely on only a few questions.
And some 25m mainly poor and poorly educated voters have yet to make up their minds.
The more polarized, caustic and poorly analyzed an issue, the more intractable it becomes.
How could I have expected otherwise, as undernourished and poorly prepared for the winter as I was?
Generous and poorly designed severance payments cause conflict, Mr Gonzaga says, and encourage workers to move frequently.
Cars must navigate crumbling roads and poorly designed highway systems that all but make gridlock and accidents unavoidable.
They have been revealed to be, if too big to fail, also too incompetent and poorly run to trust.
Discontent with Stronismo, as Paraguayans called it, was shared by groups as diverse as landless peasants and poorly-paid doctors.
None of this may have much impact on the radio station's traditional, mainly elderly, rural and poorly educated listeners.
The response said that many existing school kitchens were outdated and poorly designed.
Among the challenges chemicals companies face in effectively optimizing production are the use of manual processes and poorly integrated systems.
So a decade after the boom, incubators are seen by many as a cesspool of amateur entrepreneurs and poorly executed startups.
Honduran police have complained about being underpaid and poorly equipped to fight the violent street gangs blamed for much of the violence.
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The court heard long queues and poorly informed staff at driving licence centres would complicate voter efforts to get the required documentation.
Rubbish may be universal, but it is little studied and poorly understood.
The credit is too complicated, not well-targeted and poorly administered, he concludes.
These zones correspond to well-controlled symptoms, somewhat-controlled symptoms and poorly controlled symptoms.
Mr Timpson said the "cliff-edge" of leaving care was often too sudden and poorly planned, with many teenagers finding the move "traumatic".
For a start, they are often far too numerous and poorly linked.
Because the methodology for calculating subsidy costs is not transparent and poorly understood, true project costs and risks are likely to be underestimated .
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