Your product design requires some soul: We all have had our share of badly designed tech-products.

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That said, student-loan systems in America and elsewhere are often badly designed for an extended period of high unemployment.

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Badly designed compensation is an indicator of poor corporate governance, and poor corporate governance is an indicator of investment risk.

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IT, if the software is badly designed, could actually increase errors.

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As chancellor, he introduced a badly designed regulation system, with the result that nobody was really in charge of overseeing the banks when the credit crunch hit.

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Shadow Treasury minister Rachel Reeves said the plans were "badly designed" and "badly targeted", as she opened an opposition day debate on the subject on 5 March 2012.

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Also, the report says that a lot of aid in the past has been badly designed: too much reliance on short-term-funding, for instance, causing projects to fail because recurrent expenses cannot be covered.

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However, they are badly designed for that purpose.

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In his view, the fact that he won the national popular vote gives him license to prove he would have won Florida as well, were it not for badly designed ballots and faulty voting machines.

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Medicaid's supporters worry that congressional budget writers will craft a budget that includes cuts, but that those cuts will be badly designed, will hurt the weakest most and will do nothing to deal with Medicaid's long-term mess.

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Badly designed policies can be self-defeating.

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There are reasons to doubt the result, both because of questions about whether the study was mismanaged or badly designed, which could have led to no difference being shown between the drugs, and because the data have not been presented in a medical journal or at a scientific meeting.

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But a badly-designed prediction market in cybersecurity could still produce major conflicts of interest.

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However, it can be designed well or badly, and the euro's design has several flaws.

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President Kuchma said working group talks between representatives of the two rivals, designed to end the crisis, were going badly.

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Tihar Jail is badly overcrowded with nearly twice as many prisoners as it was designed to hold.

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The scheme was designed to stimulate the US car industry, which has been hit badly by the global economic crisis.

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