The biggest problem with structured notes is that that your returns may be calculated in very strange ways.

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Anybody in a ratings agency who equates a 1989-style Brady Bond with what is being proposed now might stand guilty of that old "structured by cows" problem.

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The way Medicaid is legally structured makes it difficult to root out the problem.

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Still his situation highlights the problem with the way pay packages are structured, says Mansbridge.

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"I think many children with autism can do well in that highly structured situation and may not get flagged as having a particular problem, " Grinker said.

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Part of the problem has to do with the way hedge funds are structured.

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And part of that problem was lodged in MMS and the way that that agency was structured.

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Team members had vastly conflicting schedules, very different ideas on how the project should be structured and the who-should-do-what issue was an on-going problem.

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The problem is twofold: One is that depending on how it's structured, if recipients are suddenly getting a plan that has their reimbursement rates going like this, but health care costs are still going up like that, then over time the way we're saving money is essentially by capping what they're getting relative to their costs.

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