Ill-designed pension systems magnify the effect of population ageing by creating incentives for people to retire ever earlier.

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To make matters worse, Mr Cardoso's government now faces several huge lawsuits over its predecessors' ill-designed emergency economic measures.

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They claim that the current global system is ill-designed for such a world.

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In fact, much of the team that now comprises EnerDel were the team that designed the ill-fated EV1 electric car that General Motors introduced and later unceremoniously killed during the 1990s.

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And, even if they were not obsolescing, weapons designed for the Cold War may be ill-suited and incredible as deterrents to today's threats.

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In preparation for longer spaceflight, scientists have designed shields to deflect harmful energetic particles, and continue to study the ill-effect of weightlessness on astronauts.

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