Another potential rub in welcoming world finance is the rule-of-law problem: Capital markets function on trust, and welshing on derivatives contracts, for example, is not conducive to bringing big money to the mainland.

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The problem was to find the mathematical function that describes this process.

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The problem with trial lawyers performing a regulatory function is that lawsuits take years or even decades to come to trial, meanwhile the company producing bad products continues business as usual, profiting while increasing the number of victims.

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The real problem is that the human body is not designed to function optimally in an environment where food is so plentiful.

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And that is a function of -- that is a result of his approach to this problem, the focus on al Qaeda that he felt had been lost in previous years when the focus was shifted from al Qaeda in Afghanistan and bin Laden onto Iraq.

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Worker voice is the function of unions or other institutions in communicating the desires of workers to employers, thus overcoming the collective action problem.

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But then the problem occurred, if the objective is owning a word in the mind, what is the role and function of a visual?

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