The government blames growth of consumer goods output as a primary cause of inflation.
Every day, 2.5 billion people are exposed to the primary cause of death: unsafe water.
The recession may have boosted this trend, he says, but it was not its primary cause.
But that was before the likely primary cause - the battery - was ruled out.
The slow economic growth of the 2000s was the primary cause of the fiscal problems we face today.
The square windows on the original Comet jetliner were found to be the primary cause of its disintegration.
This was the primary cause of the four consecutive, worsening recessions of the 1970s, from 1969 to 1982.
There is, however, little evidence to show that consumer ignorance is the primary cause of our financial woes.
While there are many contributing factors that will be explored here, the evidence points to hubris as the primary cause.
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He said that schools were not the primary cause of division and were not responsible for achieving a shared society.
Intelligence officials briefing the cabinet suggested that violent unrest in Syria was a primary cause for a shift by Hamas.
But if credit swaps were not a primary cause of the past year's conflagrations, they were, in certain respects, an accelerant.
And what has been the primary cause of this money supply explosion?
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Bernanke noted that financial markets remain under extreme strain and that the credit squeeze is a primary cause of the economic slowdown.
Now, while a number of factors led to such a severe recession, the primary cause was a breakdown in our financial system.
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While Fed policy was undoubtedly important, it was not the primary cause of the Great Depression or the economy's relapse in 1937.
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In fact, approximately 20 percent of people looking for financial counseling this year mentioned medical debt as the primary cause of their bankruptcy.
He also said that rising food prices were an aggravating factor of the unrest in the Middle East, although not its primary cause.
But in recent years, interest shifted to collision avoidance, hence the focus on driver behavior, the primary cause of most crashes, Dr. Campbell said.
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I've said before, Social Security is not the primary cause of our deficits, but it does face long-term challenges as our country grows older.
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He cites the slowdown in Europe as the primary cause, and sees signs that troubles there have spread to IT spending in North America and China.
Zoellick also said that rising food inflation is part of the reason for the unrest in the Middle East and Northern Africa, although not its primary cause.
It also rebuffs the critics of globalisation, who argue that trade kills jobs, suppresses American wages and is the sole or primary cause of higher wage inequality.
These complications are the primary cause of serious long-term brain damage in premature babies and are associated with the subsequent development of cerebral palsy and mental retardation.
As Republicans escape blame for being the primary cause of a broken Washington, Democrats, as the party in power, are most at risk of losing elections in November.
The primary cause of the NBA lockout is that the owners want the players to swallow much lower salaries, something that has received little attention in the media.
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The primary cause for this difference in debt-holding is that the US has been running a current account deficit for years, while Japan has historically always exported more than it imports.
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Mr. Miller says he thinks the primary cause of his hot hand turning cool was simply "bad decision-making, " and that luck played a role in his fund being ranked so highly last year.
Barker and Phillips studied data obtained from the death certificates of people who died in hospital settings between 1979 and 2006, culling those for which medication error was listed as the primary cause of death.
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If bank lending is turning down, for example, anecdotal information is needed to help sort out whether the primary cause is reluctance to lend, a reduction in loan demand, or some combination of the two.
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