Since Japan is struggling to free itself from a banking crisis caused partly by widespread connected lending (thanks to the system of corporate groups known as keiretsu, today's variant on the zaibatsu), Mr Ochi's preferences seem most peculiar.
On the other hand, there was probably good reason to want to be able to place a stranger within the system of tribal groups, coalitions and alliances that early man would have had to deal with among his neighbours.
First, Hezbollah obviously has ways to either bribe or convert so- called marginal and indigenous groups in Latin America that had already developed anti-system ideologies, and, consequently, have a predisposition to make alliances with other groups that also detest the system and identify with the oppressed.
Big organisations with sharp lawyers can usually navigate the system, but small groups tend to get lost.
After thoroughly researching the foster care system, conducting focus groups with successful foster care alumni, and independently mentoring foster children, I decided that I would be a champion to improve the odds for foster youth.
The first newsgroups and discussion groups appeared in the early years of the Internet, around 1980, and the bulletin board system allowed topic-related discussion groups from 1990 on.
Rather, it functions by balancing several oligarchic groups within the system.
Under the new proposals, the EU will shift from the current bargaining over quotas - a system often attacked by environmental groups - to fishing based on "maximum sustainable yield" (MSY).
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In Germany, for example, disenchantment with what had come to be seen as an excessively cosy system of bargaining between elite groups helped to spark an explosion of protest movements in the 1980s.
The V-chip, imposed on TV makers in 1996 to let parents block raunchy shows, is a flop in the marketplace (parental groups claim the rating system is inaccurate, rendering the chip moot).
The Justice Committee (at 9.30am) continues its look at the treatment of women by the criminal justice system, with evidence from pressure groups the Prison Reform Trust and the Howard League for Penal Reform.
Their Aegis missile defence system, deployed to protect American carrier groups, is designed to track a missile's trajectory from launch.
She also praised the French system where children are taught in larger groups by better qualified and higher paid staff than in England.
This cutting of red tape has delighted business - and doubtless those wanting a roof extension, too - but green groups and civic groups fear that the new system has handed power to a quango from politicians and people.
The Manhattan Virtual Classroom is a web-based course management system that includes a variety of discussion groups, live chat, areas for the teacher to post the syllabus and other handouts and notices, a module for organizing online assignments, a grades module, a surveys module, and a unique, web-based email system open only to students in the class.
They say they hope to have an international system for licensing medicines for five different age groups agreed in November.
The ABPI said that it hoped to have an international system for licensing medicines for five different age groups agreed in November.
The groups have argued that the licensing system operates like an old boys' club, with decisions being made in secret by scientists who are generally in favour of animal experiments.
Speaking to the country as well as to his accusers, he rejected the idea that anybody should have a monopoly on religious interpretation, arguing that pluralism was acceptable under the Islamic system, and defending the right of dissident groups and theologians to present their views.
Our system of working is that there are 48 pilots in Liverpool and we're divided into groups and in each group there are 6 pilots and we have a rota system which basically means that we work for 10 days and have 7 days off.
The other groups would maintain the existing income tax system framework with a variety of changes.
She is the director of Ohio Votes, which helps nonprofit groups guide their clients through the voting system.
The missing element is accountability, according to Nancy Parrish of Protect Our Defenders, one of the groups urging changes in the military justice system.
Under a system to be introduced later this year, media groups that want to continue to use their own hardware and software will have to order it from approved suppliers, and have it shipped directly to the department and installed by its own IT people.
Many individuals and groups have put forward proposals for fixing the system and that is a good thing.
They want more age groups and more women to buy into the system.
"The bankruptcy system would be opened to abuse, " the industry groups said in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee last month.
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The heavy voter turnout highlighted concerns among voter-rights groups about the nation's patchwork election system and the tax it exacts on citizens' time.
Shell Oil Vice President Paul Goodfellow said this is the first time the company and environmental groups have reached agreement to create an entire system for reducing the effects of shale drilling.
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