That is a big threat for the Greens, increasingly divided over Kosovo and facing a special party congress on the issue on May 13th.

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All of these excuses sound viable, but the problem is we are facing increasingly difficult and unpredictable threats.

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The challenge facing the Europeans (and others) will be to harness the benefits of their increasingly important new currency, while at the same time minimising the risk of any such negative global consequences.

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The report also concluded that China is facing increasingly serious threats from overseas cyberattacks.

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Because volumes have fallen in the PC business, Intel is increasingly facing a problem of keeping its fabs filled, which is critical because otherwise they start to lose money in large quantities rather quickly.

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The essential problem facing the high-tax countries is this: In a competitive world where capital and human talent are increasingly mobile, both will tend to move where aftertax returns are highest.

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Ominously, he is facing opposition from both within his own party, but also from the LDP whose leader, Tanigaki, who increasingly comes off as an opportunist and demagogue.

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Perhaps the biggest challenge facing health care is to cope with a rise in chronic disease in ways that satisfy increasingly demanding patients without bankrupting national health care systems.

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