The crisis also revealed serious flaws in the nuclear industry's regulatory systems and safety standards.
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The demonstrators were angry at constitutional reforms which the government says will modernise Guatemala's economic and regulatory systems.
However, to gain the greatest efficiencies, truly global production networks need not only open markets but markets with similar regulatory systems.
Thursday's protest was fuelled by anger at Mr Perez Molina, who has proposed constitutional reforms that he says will modernise Guatemala's economic and regulatory systems.
"A scheme to obtain prescriptions in one state, and fill them and distribute them in another, exposes weakness in our regulatory systems, " Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan said in a release.
So this can be a win-win situation, where not only are we making our regulatory systems more efficient in our respective countries, but we're also seeing greater convergence between our two countries.
But add to this, here, very significant cross-cultural management and staff issues, problems of distance, and regulatory systems that are often purposed to different ends, and you have a leadership challenge indeed for firms that venture down this path.
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The Jobs Council released a new report in advance of today's meeting that details recommendations to improve our nation's long-term competitiveness by investing in our education system, building on our strengths in manufacturing and energy, and reforming our regulatory and corporate tax systems.
The EU list, cobbled together with help from all 25 member states, lists both cargo and passenger carriers from Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Swaziland and Liberia as having inadequate systems for regulatory oversight on safety standards and bars them from flying to EU destinations.
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But there are some regulatory barriers to overcome before those systems could be functional here.
Comprehensive economic reform is required to increase competition and level the playing field, to strengthen financial systems, and to streamline regulatory requirements.
These are absorbed into existing things and systems, from products and businesses to regulatory structures, promoting (hopefully positive) change.
Recently, drugs like Novartis ' Gleevec and Genentech 's Avastin have shown promise by blocking the proteins that cause cancer cells to divide uncontrollably, but drug companies have also been beset with regulatory and clinical snafus--most prominently, ImClone Systems ' Erbitux.
This will detail the law enforcement response and the regulatory response to a potential attack on the food and agriculture systems and how these responses complement each other in resolving these incidents.
As utilities move from planning to implementation of smart-grid systems, they will face a clutch of financial, regulatory and technical challenges.
Such systems will never be able to prevent all violations of federal regulatory requirements, but simply because violations occur is not a reason to conclude that an outside director has been disloyal to the corporation.
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With regulatory pressure increasing on energy hogs like data centers, the landlord with the best monitoring systems has the edge.
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He expects IT departments and back office administrators will use regulatory demand to persuade senior executives that it is finally time to invest in new accounting systems, something many people in operations have wanted for years.
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