The new contracts lack the security a new legal structure would grant, and Iraqi lawmakers have argued that they run contrary to existing law, which requires government control, operation, and ownership of Iraq's oil sector.
Some are common to all financial innovations: new products lack enough liquidity to lure buyers in, for example.
Worse still, Mr Cowen reckons that the gains from two centuries of rapid technological innovation are largely exhausted, and that new discoveries lack the same revolutionary quality.
Meanwhile, squad numbers have been allocated for the new season with several changes despite the lack of new arrivals.
More than one million households in New Jersey currently lack electricity, making heating soup up difficult indeed.
When core businesses that you understand well are growing 10-15% a year, new markets can lack allure.
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What the new company will lack is the kind of basic science in which most biotechnology companies specialize.
But the problem with the new Groups is lack of incentives.
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Unfortunately, Berkowitz was right about cold water vs. warm water, and the oysters of New Orleans, while they lack nothing in the way of charm, are simply not good in comparison with those of New England and the Pacific Northwest.
New York seemed to lack the required energy and urgency to take advantage in Game 4.
The most important aspect of the current market is the lack of new supply.
Investors who sold shares after the reports were rightly concerned about a lack of new business.
Among the stressors are a lack of new rental construction and the conversion of many rental buildings into condominiums.
Part of the trouble stems from New Labour's lack of defined philosophical underpinnings.
Analysts are particularly critical of the lack of new products in Singapore pipelines.
And a lack of new construction means those shortages may be prolonged.
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Fears about a lack of new home sales and the unwillingness of consumers to buy new automobiles added fuel to the fire.
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On the one hand, a lack of new regulations will likely help more small businesses qualify for credit cards that have reasonable interest rates.
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Even former President Bill Clinton recently pronounced the lack of new drilling permits in the Gulf "ridiculous, " given the fragile state of the economy.
The company noted that slow store traffic reflected a lack of new game releases, causing sales of new software and hardware to decline sharply.
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Smith, though, was showing no signs of panic at his weekly media conference at the lack of new faces so far in the January transfer window.
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Concerns are also rising over an apparent lack of new game-changing products like the iPad and the iPhone when they first debuted which have previously driven Apple's growth.
The lack of new projects may be seen as stagnation, but a slower creative process can also mean that the company is extremely thorough when filtering ideas.
Currently my institution, which pioneered antiretroviral therapy in Africa and treats a large proportion of AIDS patients in Uganda, is not taking new patients due to lack of funding.
However, the new generation gaming systems lack safety features, which may provide an opportunity to the users to avoid being injured caused by inadvertently colliding with the surrounding objects.
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Although the Iraqi government has made commitments to enshrining the rights of religious minorities in the country's new constitution, the lack of security makes these difficult to enforce on the ground.
When housing crashed, it was the lack of new asset backed securities that pushed the economy into recession by freezing up the banking system and destroying consumer and small business credit markets.
The past radicalism of Lula and his Workers' Party (PT), and the new president's lack of any administrative experience, made investors fear that Brazil could follow its big neighbour Argentina into bankruptcy.
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