With the NHS sorted (or not) the prime minister now has two more big problems to crunch before packing his trunks and heading for the beach.
They are tackling big social problems like making healthcare more affordable or bringing clean water to broader populations.
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The more immediate of the Internet's two big problems, and the easier one to solve, is the shortage of addresses.
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For starters, UBS has been tied to more notable regulatory problems than perhaps any of its big bank peers.
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It has a big budget deficit and deep structural problems (more than half of Portuguese adults left school at the minimum leaving age).
"They're succeeding at some of the big but simpler problems and really just getting started on more complicated secondary pollutant problems, " said Chris Nielsen, another researcher on the project and executive director of Harvard's China Project, which focuses on the atmospheric environment.
When it comes to managing growth, one of the big problems that Pennington has identified is that when there are more than 100 people, it is difficult to get to know each person individually.
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This is a big deal for more than finance, because if we must find new approaches to problems like energy or poverty, at a scale that only big organizations can manage.
Fears of Big Brother aside, the use of biometrics in air travel faces other more pressing logistical problems.
Already the G-8 countries have seemingly conceded that the world's current problems are too big for them to solve and that G-20 is a more appropriate forum.
"To the extent that the extended family has disappeared and everyone is living fragmented lives, the impact of a child who needs lifelong caring or who has lifelong problems is going to be more heavily felt by parents because they don't have big support networks, " she says.
On discovering these problems, Oxford says, it faced an unpleasant choice between raising premiums more than expected or taking a big write-off.
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