Mr Blustein shows how improvised those efforts were and how close the financial system came to failure.
When the bubble burst in 1990, bad debts brought the banking system close to collapse and the nation fell into a decade of recession and deflation.
No other hospital system comes close to reporting this level of detail about the quality of its care.
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Icann said it planned to close down its application system until Wednesday and was extending its application deadline.
The case has riveted South Africa and much of the world and has placed the country's judicial system under close scrutiny.
After the killings, the Guatemalan authorities promised to impose stricter controls in jails, but also acknowledged that the prison system was close to collapse.
Property-related revenue plummeted and the banking system came close to collapse.
By combining HDD storage capacity with the higher performance of flash memory, a total system performance close to flash memory can be achieved with storage costs close to those of HDDs.
We'd gone through almost a decade in which job growth had been sluggish, incomes had declined, costs were going up -- all culminating in the financial system coming close to a breakdown.
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To comply with these drastic budget cuts, the Los Angeles County Court system will close ten courthouses and assign all personal injury cases to one of two Judges, each of whom will be required to personally manage as many as 8, 000 cases.
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Instead, it is drawing up new rules that would allow it to intervene in its banking system and close down troubled banks, which is raising questions since the whole purpose of the bailout of its banks was so they could continue to operate.
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Or do they think the present system is so close to perfection that it cannot be improved?
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In fact, the firm forecasts that only some 8% more will have adopted some type of security system by the close of 2009.
The traditional dollar-based world currency system is now close to breaking point and the chances that it will come crashing down by 2016 are probably higher than fifty-fifty.
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The Cornwall carries a 4.5 inch MK8 gun, Goal Keeper CIWS close in weapon systems, Sea Wolf anti-missile system, Harpoon missile launchers, two 20mm close range guns, Lynx MK8 helicopter armament, anti-ship missiles, and one of the most sophisticated command and control communications systems on water.
If, however, something close to a fully federal system has emerged, with real power and legitimacy devolved to regional assemblies and mayors, and with a more proportional electoral system for the Commons, then a powerful upper house may come to seem not only unnecessary but dangerous, for it would risk gridlock.
Heavy HDD use gave us 40dB, while accessing HDD and spinning up a Blu-ray took this to a deafening 50dBA. Luckily, once a disc was loaded and running, sounds from the drive ceased almost completely and overall system noise remained close to the idle level while actually playing a movie -- the Samsung SH-123L was impressive in that respect.
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When a system is operating at close to maximum the fear is that good planning and preparation can only go so far.
He added that with a hospital system that ran at close to full capacity all the time it was difficult to add additional capacity.
Asteroid Braille, believed to be about one to five kilometers (.6 to 3 miles) across, will be the smallest body in the solar system ever studied up close by a spacecraft.
What we have seen is we have seen a response at the grassroots level from American citizens who are concerned about the outcome of the initial effort to try to close loopholes in the background checks system.
It took Schaeffer only five months to analyze the setup and write code that would let him, from his laptop, tell the Scada system to open and close enough breakers to bring down the mock utility--without letting the legitimate operator see what was going on.
The micoach Elite System was developed in close consultation and collaboration with many of the leading soccer coaches and clubs including Major League Soccer teams New York Red Bulls, Philadelphia Union and Seattle Sounders FC, as well as Real Madrid, AC Milan, Ajax and Bayern Munich.
At the moment, the current system gives more weight to close relatives.
Forex traders and global conspiracy theorists take note: with close to 600 million people using the system, we could be watching a Dollar rival spring to life.
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One of the key difficulties in overcoming the Euro debt crisis is that the current financial system is characterized by a close symbiosis between national governments and national banking systems.
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It is complex, inefficient, unfair, and it is the biggest tax in a federal revenue system that has not come close to paying for federal spending for more than a decade.
Communities, churches and voluntary groups seek to fill the gap, but it is clear to all who have had personal experience of the system that social services is close to breaking point.
Instead, we should close the existing loopholes in the tax system that give special deals to connected Washington insiders and move towards a flatter, fairer tax code that treats all Americans equally.
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