• This is what happens when policymakers treat symptoms rather than causes, but Argentina is way ahead of Japan in this regard.

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  • Maybe you will decide that the amount spent on US universities is a consequence of their superior performance - that is, people pay more because they perceive US university education to be better - so spending follows performance rather than causes it.

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  • Similarly, the failure of video-telephony is rooted in social rather than technological causes.

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  • Given the woes of Citigroup and some other troubled financial institutions, taxpayers might question why banks are still forking out any cash to good causes rather than using it to repay government loans.

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  • The company is already conducting a big U.S. clinical trial that will compare its stent to Boston Scientific's on actual clinical endpoints such as heart attacks and deaths, rather than just whether it causes arteries to reclose.

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  • Kraepelin's work, however, was soon overshadowed by that of Sigmund Freud, whose conclusion that mental illness came from emotional causes, rather than physical ones, underpinned the rise of the psychoanalytical tradition in Europe and America in the 20th century.

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  • It would require rethinking the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty--which, among other problems, blocks Americans from using a theater-anti-missile system to defend the U.S. homeland. (We can only use it to defend troops abroad.) And a more urgent threat would require Mr. Clinton to spend money on defenses rather than other favored White House causes.

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  • Its size, demands, ambitions, and expense are causes of, rather than cures for, incompetence.

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  • Playscripts force companies to focus on the causes of change rather than the symptoms, and they explicate the logic of success and the assumptions behind it.

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  • And instead of being able to break the company apart, the hedge fund caused government officials to have to put quite a bit of resources into the overall company rather than just dealing with some of the root causes of the downfall.

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  • Ms Pinker is surely right that understanding the causes of workplace gender gaps, rather than mulishly insisting sex differences do not exist, will ultimately be better for both women and men.

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  • Rather than give you an insightful edge, liking the product causes you to lose perspective and see only what you want to see in the stock.

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  • However, these numbers should be taken with a grain of salt because the more detailed the data on causes of death, for instance, rather than death as a whole the less statistical significance can be ascribed to them.

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  • Rather than spending their time and effort trying to find the true causes of autism, they continue to repeat claims that have already been shown false.

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  • We also double tax multinationals they are taxed in the country where they generate revenue, and then again when that cash is brought back to the U.S. This causes most foreign earnings to be reinvested outside the U.S. rather than being brought back for domestic investment.

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  • So rather than just tackling the gangs, Sao Paulo's state government needs to treat the underlying causes: the lack of training and supervision of prison staff, and the overcrowding and poor facilities in jails.

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  • Bakri, who has used his considerable talents to criminalize and demonize the country and to support its terrorist enemies, was lionized as an unwilling culture warrior who would much rather be acting than fighting, but feels he cannot escape his duty to fight for the great causes he holds dear.

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  • Benchmark chasing also causes undue stress with clients unnerved by the inevitable gyrations of a benchmark, rather than being focused on an approach that strives to make regular progress on the achievement and ultimately realization of their goals with the least amount of risk or volatility to meet their personal goals and objectives.

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  • The concern is echoed by charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer, whose own research last year found that women were unaware of the underlying causes of breast cancer, falsely believing that most cases were due to family history rather than lifestyle or other factors.

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  • The results overwhelmingly indicate that, rather than alleviating the stress and longer hours of commuting in and out of the office, working from home causes work to seep into home life.

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  • Nuisance - captures incidents where an act, condition, thing or person causes trouble, annoyance, irritation, inconvenience, offence or suffering to the local community in general rather than to individual victims.

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  • Public opinion in many Arab countries is rather more sympathetic to the Iranians than are their leaders - the proverbial "Arab street" seeing Iran often as a rather more active champion of causes like that of the Palestinians.

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