Colombia still has many serious problems, including violence and a great deal of poverty, but it has remained committed to democracy and free markets.
Russia has many serious problems that it must confront if it wants to continue to develop economically, and its chances of doing so successfully are not necessarily encouraging.
Having so many potentially serious global problems at the same time is obviously scary.
"Many of the serious problems associated with adoption have less to do with adoption, per se, than with what happens before adoption, " says Brodzinsky.
"In completing work on this legislation, Congress took heed of many of the serious problems identified by the Center in earlier drafts, " noted Frank J.
Translate those figures into the quality of a family's life and they mean constant worry, inadequate access to needed medical care and, for many, serious health problems.
The second consideration dampening the regional celebrations is that many Asian countries are suffering from serious problems of their own.
ECONOMIST: Disarray in the West generates mixed reactions in Asia
Della Santina guesses there are 50, 000 in the U.S. with serious problems, and many more with less severe symptoms that could also benefit from treatment.
Multinationals are downsizing and reworking their operations, and many local firms are facing serious liquidity problems due to high interest rates and the reluctance of banks to hand out loans.
But the severe recession from which we are still recovering has caused serious budget problems for many state and local governments, which fund the vast majority of the costs of public elementary through high school education.
Paulson outlined a series of new rules and regulations that federal and state officials are expected to issue to reform many of the financial market practices that led to the serious problems in the mortgage and credit markets.
But many of these children are profoundly deaf, or have serious hearing problems.
Serious problems may be lurking below the surface of many homes, said the report, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The very fact that so many USDA employees did not recognize the real problems of inequitable program delivery is a very serious concern, but may explain, in part, why previous efforts to address USDA discrimination problems have been less than fully successful.
Military studies show that as many as one quarter of soldiers who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan have symptoms of serious mental health problems.
Many businesses contacted the BBC to vent their frustration at the service, suggesting today's problems have had a serious impact on sales.
These debates still seem to be mainly the preserve of the usual euro-suspects, and are treated with rather weary ennui by many MPs, but tension over a whole series of EU issues is rising, and they could yet result in serious problems for the government.
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