Most executives, managers and investors have come to believe that cost cutting, and striving for more efficiency, is the solution for most business problems.
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People started seeing specialists for the most mundane problems.
"There is so much fear about having these discussions, when for most people the problems are going to happen when they haven't had these discussions, " says Amy Berman, a senior program officer for the John A. Hartford Foundation, which focuses on improving health care for older Americans.
The Sharia stipulation banning interest, though, is the one that poses the most problems for modern finance.
For most countries with debt problems, The End Game is a binary-path-dependent future.
Actually, he had been having money problems for most of his life.
Computers running Windows generated most problems for players, said Mr Las, as there were so many different ways to configure a desktop or home computer.
These topics are still important, but for the most part, the problems of 1913 have been solved.
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That's good news, Crossan said, since information overload is one of the most significant problems for e-mail communications.
One of the most important problems for small business is equity capital (not bank lending) the stock market has done nothing for ten years.
Still, Indonesia's second Fund deal signed in January was criticized for largely ignoring the most pressing problems of rupiah free-fall and crushing foreign debt, which by then were dragging down banks and firms.
In 1900, David Hilbert, a German mathematician and contemporary of Einstein's, in a famous speech to the International Congress of Mathematicians, presented a list of what he considered to be the 23 most important problems for the new century.
Medicaid for decades has egregiously underpaid providers, resulting in widespread problems of access to care for our most vulnerable populations.
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His company has no real infrastructure problems because for the most part it has built its own railway lines to connect its mines with port facilities it also owns.
Almost all of them are frustrated, trying to solve individual problems that for the most part are remarkably similar--lost luggage at an airline, say, a broken bulb in the oven, keyboard problems.
And Mr Yushchenko should not be blamed for some of Ukraine's most intractable problems.
Every VP in a company is normally clamoring for attention and thinks their problems are most important.
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Marc Jacobs postponed his Monday night show until Thursday, citing delivery problems, but for the most part Fashion Week went on with the show.
Given Japan's fascination with gadgets, perhaps it's no surprise that the country is turning to technology for help with one of its most vexing problems: an aging population.
During the 30-minute talk he also discussed his daughter Hayley's battles with weight issues and his own personal problems, but for the most part the talk remained light.
Overall, I believe that an integrated approach to monetary and bank supervision would provide the most efficient set of procedures for diagnosing problems with banks and then prescribing the correct mix of solvency and liquidity measures required to resolve these problems.
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At the most recent GOP presidential debate, for instance, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich insisted he could address most fiscal problems by controlling, yes, waste, fraud, and abuse.
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You also need to remove from your life the day-to-day problems that absorb most people for meaningful parts of their day.
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Special Offer: Last fall Gary Shilling successfully predicted more problems for the Eurozone economy when most analysts thought the worst was behind them.
Great believers in the idea that working out the answers for yourself is often the most effective approach to problems, they have deliberately created space in their MBA program, whereby students get an opportunity every week to switch off the phone, email and internet and engage in some good old-fashioned reflection.
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For the most part, investors have known about these problems and have chosen to ignore them.
Are doctors appointments the most efficient way to get care for minor health problems?
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At least half of Edwards' supporters chose empathy with their problems as the most important trait for a president.
For all the problems it has brought, the most serious threat posed by Wyoming's gas boom is that it will end.
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