"If you measure the extent of the problem, you can manage the problem, " he says.
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Airlines say they most often pick trips randomly, and sometimes target problem flights to measure how employees responded to trouble.
Obama -- who missed the Senate vote on the resolution but has said he opposes it -- said the problem with the measure was that it went beyond identifying the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.
The Obama administration has said its deferred action policy -- which allows people younger than 30 who arrived in the United States before the age of 16, pose no criminal or security threat, and were successful students or served in the military, to apply for a two-year deferral from deportation -- is a temporary measure aimed at addressing a problem that requires a permanent solution.
But the bigger problem is that the measure will be a compliance nightmare for the Internal Revenue Service and smaller businesses.
One problem is how to measure the openness of a country's trade policy: trade barriers can take many different forms.
If you measure the new treaty against that problem alone, it is a success: a clear improvement on the previous arrangements (see article).
But the problem is that they measure brain activity outside the skull -- you know, the thing we've evolved to shield the murky goings-on in our minds from prying EEG sensors.
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"If there was one single measure that would have resolved the problem, just like clearing a fog, then we wouldn't have been in this state for the last 15 years, " he said at the news conference, reiterating that in addition to monetary policy, efforts to boost growth and competitiveness also were necessary.
"I think there is a real problem with the way we measure child poverty, " he said.
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To sum up so far: yes, of course we must measure the resources being used to solve a problem.
Schools are trying to get ahead of the problem by implementing baseline testing to measure cognitive ability before and after an injury.
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Unfortunately, no matter how regions are divided, they are arbitrary, and there is no practical way to measure regional inequality that does not encounter this problem.
It's complex because it's difficult to measure our taxable income and that is a problem regardless of whether or not you use progressive marginal rates or a single flat rate.
But during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on one of the proposals (the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act), proponents of the measure disregarded all facts showing why their solution is worse than the problem.
And if I could wave a wand, I'd love to have a way to measure how exposure to risks like disease, infection, malnutrition and problem pregnancies impact children's potential their ability to learn and contribute to society.
The other problem with basic research is that its benefits are almost impossible to measure.
The Lake District National Park Authority said it had been working to find a solution to the problem since opening these portable toilets - intended to be a temporary measure - in 2010.
Car insurance companies look to be at long last investigating ways to minimize this information problem by incentivizing drivers to put devices on their cars to partly measure how risky of drivers they are.
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The problem, as I see it anyway, is that neither has the measure of the crisis.
The problem with that definition, of course, is that not just anybody can measure it -- since most of us don't have an International Prototype Kilogram laying around, especially since every time the thing is picked up a few atoms rub off of it making it a little bit lighter.
The problem with hedge funds is that a lack of information hinders outsiders' ability to measure their contribution to systemic risk.
An impact of this measure would, of course, see the ageing of populations, but that's a problem the world will have to face sooner or later unless we're to resign ourselves to unlimited population growth.
More work is needed on the measuring side, but I believe the problem is in principal solvable, once we agree on what is the right thing to measure, namely, inspiring a capability for lifelong learning.
Both senators said Monday that part of the problem involves misconceptions about their compromise, and they urged colleagues to read the 49-page measure instead of relying on what they called erroneous political rhetoric by opponents.
Everybody knows how Lipitor works, Hazlett argued, so the problem must be the study, which used a technique called carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) to measure the thickness of the walls of an artery in the neck.
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