For example, a dysfunctional partnership with a supplier can provide the impetus to develop more efficient offerings.
Set in America in the not-too-distant future, the novel braided countless characters and ideas into a deliriously strange and self-consciously literary plot, involving a tennis academy, a recovery facility, a dysfunctional family and a debilitatingly gripping film.
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It may seem from all this that the exchange is a dysfunctional organisation lost in a time warp.
But with or without Mr Saakashvili, a dysfunctional and unstable Georgia that is a burden to the West would suit the Kremlin's interests.
It's a low-budget comedy about a dysfunctional family's road trip taking a seven-year-old to a beauty pageant.
They had witnessed a dysfunctional relationship between their mother and father, and it was vital to me that they see how a loving couple behaves each day.
Howard Davies directs this tale of three generations of a dysfunctional family in their seaside, 1930s Art Deco house in Devon, reconstructed by designer Vicki Mortimer, in a way that tells you all you need to know: the mess is incredible though the real estate is obviously valuable, and the Che Guevara poster tags Judy's political views.
Improving and rationalizing this costly and dysfunctional system is a gigantic, maybe impossible, task.
In many families, the holidays set the stage for a dysfunctional dance of drunk and disorderly conduct.
He believes that exercise represents the first clear behavioural link between depression and a dysfunctional immune system.
We endured a dysfunctional marriage of convenience, but divorce was difficult and we couldn't just get rid of him.
Lula is not counting on a dysfunctional Congress to resurrect his political fortunes.
America's transport network is similarly dysfunctional, says a recent Urban Land Institute report.
Fairness among siblings is the ideal, but in the real world of dysfunctional families, a lot of unfairness can happen.
For decades they have had a dysfunctional and adversarial relationship that nearly led to the demise of the U.S. auto industry.
Put aside the considerable legislative detritus of the act, and its aim is clear: to rationalize a dysfunctional health insurance marketplace.
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The Mets have been the epitome of a dysfunctional sports franchise even without any references to Bernie Madoff and the Ponzi scheme.
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Are Indonesian banks any less flawed or crude than those of Bulgaria or Estonia (which had a dysfunctional banking system prior to its currency board)?
The unstable international order was the product of the collapse of the great dynastic empires in 1918-19 and a dysfunctional world economy.
Then there is Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, a couple that seems to have the most strained relationship in a dysfunctional Washington.
The second is that most politicians are desperate to get something done in order to dispel the idea that Washington is a dysfunctional town.
Aubyn recently made a splash with the fifth and final book in his Patrick Melrose series, which chronicles 40 years in the life of a dysfunctional, drug abusing British aristocrat.
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The move comes as Republicans grapple with the hot-potato issue of raising the government's borrowing limit later this year, one of the few must-do items on a dysfunctional Washington's agenda this year.
The film depicts the moving and poignant struggles of real-life students and their families and the efforts of educators and reformers who are working to find viable solutions within a dysfunctional system.
It highlighted uneven flooring with small gaps and holes, flooding in the VIP area and a dysfunctional lift, and said some staff had tried to prevent journalists taking pictures of the affected areas.
Traffic lights are bad enough - they make us stop when we could go, they take our eyes off the road, flouting the most fundamental safety principle but they are only the symptom of a dysfunctional system.
Born in 1963, the artist explores society through drawings of a fictional town called Nobson Newton, which depict a dysfunctional and dystopian landscape that has been compared to the legendary William Hogarth and US cartoonist Robert Crumb.
Sony's offerings lean toward cult fare, including two titles starring Warren Beatty: John Frankenheimer's "All Fall Down" (1962), a dysfunctional-family drama that also stars Karl Malden and Angela Lansbury, and Arthur Penn's "Mickey One" (1965), whose surrealistic plot defies description.
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This is especially the case when the light falls for once not on Britain's beleaguered royals but on a dysfunctional family that really does run Britain, namely the handful of chums at the top of Tony Blair's New Labour government.
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