While some health officials have mentioned the possibility of cholera and typhoid, Osterholm said those diseases don't pose a problem because they didn't exist in the region before the hurricane.

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Therein lies the problem: Business people consider their presentations to exist primarily in PowerPoint.

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The problem is that, in the main, England's regions exist merely on paper.

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And while the problem in teacher plans put unique pressure on schools, similar problems exist in all kinds of public pensions.

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