Rather than investigate the problem, our sources say she went on a kill-the-messenger mission, convening aides to refute the report.

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You could use the annual event to investigate the problem of global water shortages, or look at the issue closer to home.

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To investigate the problem further and, perhaps, find a remedy, De Soto founded the ILD, eventually getting funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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Meanwhile, the time it is likely to take to thoroughly investigate and fix the battery problem alone ought to ground the 787 for months.

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And Dr Agrawal is interested in using similar techniques to investigate the long-standing problem of taking square roots in finite fields (again, don't ask).

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Nobody is (yet) accusing Merck of covering up hard evidence that Vioxx was unsafe: the allegation is that neither Merck nor the FDA seemed inclined to investigate suspicions of a problem.

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It is not until the end of this stage that the buyer defines how they plan to solve their problem and begins to investigate potential solution providers.

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And when noise police go out to investigate cases, they often don't issue fines, just give violators time to fix the problem.

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