We need to take the problem seriously and commit the time and resources to it.

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Confronted with one son who wanted to make a film about how tests were ruining his high school, and another son whose stress over the high-stakes tests led him to scratch his legs during his sleep, Michele decided to take the problem seriously.

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She says health officials should take the problem more seriously.

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Baroness Neville-Jones, Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague met the bosses of some of Britain's biggest businesses, including Barclays, HSBC, Tesco and BA, on Monday to urge them to take the problem more seriously.

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"We take the problem of violence in school very seriously and support groups trying to address it, " he said.

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The problem is that "we take economics too seriously as a society" and assume it works all the time.

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Most organizations are teeming with new ideas: the problem is getting traditional management to take the new ideas seriously.

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But what I said then is still true: If we're really going to tackle this problem seriously, then we've got to get Congress to take the next step.

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