For the church, built over a cave which marks the traditional birthplace of Jesus Christ, the biggest problem is water damage from unrepaired leaks and the reluctance of the Greek, Armenian and Roman Catholic hierarchs to agree on any repair plan that might disrupt the Ottoman-era system for sharing access to the building.
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Most were built over as the city expanded, disappearing below pavement or merging with the new Victorian-era sewage system.
We've got an education system unsuited for a global era, and a financial system that has been rewarding reckless risks.
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The current system signifies an era when individuals who work for corporations might all too readily be hung out to dry in an effort to save the corporation itself.
For some reason, it is conventional wisdom today that the years 1870-1914, the era of the Most Perfect Monetary System Ever Created, was a time of chronic recession and disaster.
Back in 1994, Kristol was eager to head off not only a national health care system but a whole new era of governmental activism.
But we let our system -- a system designed for a different era -- fall way behind the curve of risk and innovation in this market.
Those two groups currently hold the two most powerful offices of state under the current constitutional system which reflects a past era, when the Shia were not Lebanon's largest group.
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"Consider the consequences of continuing to subject young people to an education system rooted in the Victorian era as a preparation for a post-school period of study and work in a digital age, " she said.
We could create an updated version of the world gold standard system of the pre-1914 era.
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Subsidised petrol in Iraq is a hangover from the Saddam era, but two changes have made the system unworkable.
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Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.
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And you can go driving more money into it, as we saw in the News of the World poll today, but it still isn't going to work because the system itself was designed for an era that has gone.
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An era of austerity, which the floating-rate system was designed to avoid, is going to occur after all.
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Now, there's a second problem, though, and it's one that money alone cannot solve, and that is that we have a school system that was designed for the agricultural era -- there's a reason why we've got three months off during the summer.
In this democratic, high-tech era, however, a shift to a more decentralized system is essential.
"We are defining a new era of convergence in technology, with one unified operating system that underpins cloud computing, data centers, PCs and consumer electronics" says Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and VP Products at Canonical.
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"It could usher in an era of very personalized medicine where, based on the smart delivery system, one pill could take care of many different things for an individual, " he says.
"Imagination is the only barrier to the next era of mobile applications, " stated TH Kim, vice president of System LSI marketing, Device Solutions, Samsung Electronics.
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The real problem is an antiquated air-traffic control system "that is essentially based on World War II-era technology, " says Victoria Day, a spokeswoman with the Air Transport Association, the industry's lobby group.
The worship of shareholder value began in 1976 when a journal article by Michael Jensen, "Theory of the Firm, " critiqued the prior system of managerial capitalism and set the stage for our modern era of capitalism, writes Martin.
Even though Congress is different in this era -- with both parties deeply divided internally and a closed committee system that dampens the power of party leaders to control members -- those historical struggles offer some instructive lessons for today as to how to seize a great opportunity that emerges.
However, the jammer currently being used was designed in the era of vacuum tubes, so a competition has been launched to develop a system with more power, precision and versatility.
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Louisville is also a throwback to an era before NBA policy changes sanded college basketball down to a five-month farm system.
Yayat Supriatna, an urban planning expert, told the BBC that Jakarta's drainage system "is still the same as it was in the Dutch colonial era" and should be rebuilt.
This is because while it was always claimed, indeed stated, that the new version of the operating system would work on older machines, it never did at anything above geological era type speeds.
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This, a result of laws about wages in World-War-II-era America, is one of the original sins of the U.S. health care system.
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Obama would be the first major presidential candidate to drop out of the modern campaign financing system for the general election since its creation in 1976 in the post-Watergate era.
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In an era when voters distrust the government, they can often see value in the person with less experience in the system.
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