For African-Americans, it's a matter of timing and a more systemic issue, said Gregg Kilday, film editor for The Hollywood Reporter.

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O'Driscoll agreed with Kidney's assertion there were positives to be taken from last week, and blamed the performance on individual errors, rather than any systemic issue.

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Rampant youth unemployment is a globally systemic issue.

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While the glass-is-half-empty crowd will drone on about the housing market and the problems with debt in the Europe, unless either becomes a systemic issue, the stock market game is about the expectations of earnings down the road.

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Such problems are to be expected over the agency's long history and don't necessarily reflect a systemic or cultural issue, the official said.

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Until we target culture as the issue, all we're accomplishing with systemic fixes is the illusion of action.

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Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said new tests would be brought in to ensure that healthcare workers from other EU countries can speak English to a satisfactory level, an issue which is complicated by rules which prevent systemic language testing.

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