The country has many joined-up problems but few joined-up solutions.
Jonathan Lewis: The original motivation for the Opportunity Collaboration was the realization that global poverty is rooted in multi-disciplinary problems, and so multi-disciplinary solutions are needed.
They will stop searching for a way to solve nonmonetary problems with funny-money solutions.
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These complex problems require comprehensive solutions--solutions that, as Packard so presciently noted, go far beyond writing checks and donating products.
Unfortunately, the politicians are unwilling to look for long-term solutions to long-term problems.
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To cross the chasm from the small group of experts to the much larger group of business-focused users, one must find specific business problems to solve and create purpose-built solutions.
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When I meet the American people, they believe in common-sense solutions to problems.
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As is the case with all high-tech solutions to basic problems, these sensors aren't foolproof.
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The firm is also adept at finding business-savvy solutions to design problems.
White House aides have stressed there are no short-term solutions to the problems, a stand criticized by some Democrats, including California Gov. Gray Davis, who want temporary price controls.
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Also, as CEOs, policy makers and politicians discuss how to remedy the global financial crisis, fears are rising that short-term solutions to the problems may leave economies with a greater financial hangover than to begin with.
First and most critical, the federal government should decisively expand and accelerate its efforts to drive federal funding toward programs that represent the best-known solutions to priority problems, even at the expense of entrenched grantees that enjoy strong political support.
And we will, as promised, continue to press day in and day out Congress to act on these common-sense solutions to the problems we face right now economically, the need to get growth going, the need to get jobs creation moving.
The lack of progress has led a number of Baltic countries to consider technological interventions, or so-called "geoengineering" ideas (large-scale solutions to environmental problems), such as pumping oxygen into the water, and using chemicals to bind pollutants in sediments, in a bid to save the Baltic.
But Mr Gandhi, who was recently elevated to the post of the Congress party vice-president, did not offer any solutions to the problems that bedevil India's economy and critics said his speech was rambling and non-specific.
For government entities like NASA and the CDC, it's about finding solutions to long-standing problems.
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There is a map of Florida's counties and a chapter proposing solutions to vote-counting problems.
Instead of parsing the objectives they hope to achieve, they direct their energy at coming up with solutions to broadly-stated problems.
Perhaps it's better to recognize that most solutions to America's problems--now and in the future--will be concocted not in Brussels, Berlin or Paris, but at home.
To cite just one, in an era of increasingly gridlocked urban airports and inadequate service to many rural communities following airline deregulation, the V-22 promises cost-effective solutions to intractable transportation problems.
Without outside influences, microbial communities in these environments can continue to evolve in isolation - developing novel solutions to the problems that plague their soil counterparts, such as competition and the desire to fight for resources.
Some 280 teachers, researchers, young people, ministry officials and representatives of international organisations and NGOs, participating in the Conference, stressed the importance of taking into account a variety of approaches, connecting the global to the local, inviting action, inspiring people, involving society, and looking at education as a tool to produce concrete solutions for biodiversity-related problems.
Designers question the structure of institutions and apply multiple skill-sets to derive solutions to complex problems.
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But more often than not the so-called "solutions" to these problems simply cause different problems.
If creativity is the process of coming up with novel and meaningful solutions to perplexing problems, then over-inclusiveness is the ability to see more and more ideas as relevant to a possible solution.
They will be the first to remind that those who make ill-conceived solutions to imperfectly understood military problems, especially for political reasons, are never those who have to pay the price for their capriciousness.
And while the experts find it easy to diagnose problems, they admit solutions are harder to find - particularly at a time when the financial industry is under pressure to roll out new banking apps and other online services.
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General DAVID PETRAEUS (U.S. Army): Success will take continued commitment, perseverance and sacrifice, all to make possible an opportunity for the all-important Iraqi political actions that are the key to long-term solutions to Iraq's many problems.
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