But the crisis has revealed deeper problems that have been festering for years.
Deeper problems would be inflation among wages in the eurozone, which typically signals more embedded inflationary pressures in the economy.
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He also highlighted deeper problems, such as trading imbalances, with some countries running current account surpluses and others running deficits.
But these supply worries reflect deeper problems of under-investment, argues Mr Currie.
But investors need to consider whether Alaska is just a distraction for the company, or a symptom of bigger, deeper problems that have yet to be addressed.
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And rising costs are often symptoms of much deeper problems: problems that were irritating during the years of affluence but which are cancerous in an age of austerity.
Academia is, for the most part, well suited to work-life balance choices. (I, say, for the most part because science, maths and engineering appear to have deeper problems).
Aside from such surface troubles, deeper problems have emerged.
Edmund Phelps, winner of the 2006 Nobel prize for economics for his work on savings and labour markets, argues that the structural explanation for Europe's slower growth rates masks deeper problems with dynamism.
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Ambitious Estonians, however, sometimes overlook deeper problems.
They reflect three deeper problems.
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Mr Speaker, to respond to this situation, we are acting decisively to restore order on our streets, to support the victims of this terrible violence and to look at the deeper problems that have led to such a hard core of young people to decide to carry out such appalling criminality.
But there are other, deeper, problems that will be familiar to other media retailers.
If weaker earnings presage deeper economic problems in America, that appetite might wane, hurting other economies too.
While the US unemployment rate for November unexpectedly fell to 8.6 percent from 9 percent in October, recent jobs numbers may reflect deeper systemic problems in the nation with respect to labor and economic activity.
And both men ducked conversations about some of our deeper, underlying problems.
Through the next decade and a half I would learn the systemic problems had deeper roots.
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But the agency's problems go deeper than merely being unable to deliver a cheap launcher.
Her advisers were telling her that Greece's problems ran deeper than a short-term cash shortage: The country was economically uncompetitive and living beyond its means.
In fact, the company's problems ran deeper than that amiable cook, and included burdensome debts and an inability to compete with more highly-integrated meat processors abroad.
As the GOP tries to rebuild, its problems run deeper than the 2006 and 2008 defeats, or the embarrassing admissions of infidelity by two elected officials who had been considered potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates: Nevada Sen.
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