Normally a disagreement at this level would paralyze an organization unless the leadership has a clear decision-making framework.

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Having a checklist of reasons to place your capital with a money manager helps provide a logical framework for your decision-making process, but having such a checklist only goes so far.

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The problems are compounded by Turkey, which, fearing it will be shut out of decision-making by the EU, is blocking a framework statement on NATO's readiness to permit the future European Rapid Reaction Force to use alliance resources for crisis-management when NATO is not involved.

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They say a framework for long-term decision-making has not been put in place.

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With no designated framework to release the funds, the process of decision-making will be subjective and will be bound to come under intense public scrutiny, given the level of public anger at the last round of injections into the banking system.

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