For Mr. Obama to publicly identify a problem would then put him in the position of suggesting a solution.
Proper metrics such as the amount of time it takes to identify a problem and to close a valve are essential.
The temptation for any commission, and for any commission chief, is to identify a problem, and then to propose itself as the solution.
So we're working to provide better labeling for our food and encourage our pediatricians to screen kids for obesity during well-child visits, but then to write a prescription for families when they identify a problem with a step-by-step sort of process for what they can actually do.
This is, as I say, a sensible idea, it addresses a real problem (the 2008 unpleasantness was more about runs on banks than anything else) and the only great surprise is that governments have managed to identify a real problem and come up with a real solution to it.
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Throughout the semester, students apply concepts learned in the course and identify solutions to a problem identified by the business partner.
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But one thing any scientist will tell you is that to solve a problem you first have to identify the problem.
If the director can find a way for the ordinary viewer to identify with the protagonists, this might not be a problem.
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That presents the Big Four with a particular problem: how to identify future stars among the mass of raw recruits.
By all accounts, Friedan was not a person inclined to share the credit. (Some men have been known to be this way as well.) The implication that she had diagnosed a condition no one else had even managed to identify that the problem she wrote about had no name until she named it was a pretty open invitation to revisionism.
The NRM said that after a thorough examination to identify the extent of the problem, it was established that the locomotive required essential remedial work, which would be carried out in the next two weeks.
And she recommends that the millions in civil damages awarded in brutality cases be paid not by city governments, as now, but by the police departments themselves, giving police chiefs a financial incentive to identify and punish or dismiss problem officers.
To help spot factory or commercial goods sellers, which Etsy calls "resellers, " it uses a software program called SCRAM, which can identify problem sellers by predicting the rate and sequence by which they set up their shops.
He was an early and enthusiastic adapter of Compstat, a crime-tracking system implemented in 1994 that uses computer analysis to identify problem areas in order to deploy officers and make tactical adjustments to drive down crime.
Mr Gates suggested that new techniques to identify senders, or the imposition of a small fee to send e-mails, might solve the problem.
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As Reich points out in his video, the decline in the American middle class has led to a strange phenomenon, whereby the victims of the policy identify politically with the folks who caused the problem.
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