Rather than the interaction pattern analysis which is essentially a counting or quantitative problem, we are now looking for the deeper meaning, a qualitative problem.

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By DirecTV's count, they've added 23 new HD channels yesterday, but while we love HD sports, we do have a problem counting regional sports networks that only offer programming when a game is on.

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The main problem with bean counting is not in the counting: it is the beans.

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More important, jobs are a symptom of our problem, not the root cause. (However, politicians and much of the media are obsessed with counting jobs.) We have a demand problem and a wealth creation problem.

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Probably he is counting on being able to talk our way out of this problem, as he talked his way out of the last, and the one before that.

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Depending on who is counting, around one in 20 Americans has some kind of gambling problem.

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Filipinos are fervently hoping that the computerisation of the vote-counting in May's presidential, congressional and local elections will solve the problem.

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