However, once this structure is removed, problems with the transition back to civilian status tend to arise.

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Roughly 60 percent of the YES kids live below the poverty line, and all kinds of unpredictable problems arise as they transition from Lennox or Buford to Brentwood and Harvard-Westlake.

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Ms Homer, now chief executive of the Revenue and Customs, said there had been problems with the "transition" to the new unit in 2011 but the organisation had got better at responding to correspondence and asylum cases were being dealt with properly.

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The first is, to what degree do these problems reflect an inevitable rocky transition, and to what degree are they just the way things are now?

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Some might see this as a disadvantage but on the whole because they know students from lower down the school they should be able to pick up any problems that occur with the difficult transition to sixth form study.

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While noting it may take years to complete the transition, Panetta said that U.S. budget problems and cutbacks would not get in the way of changes.

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Similarly, over the next year or two, American will likely see more reservation problems, lost luggage and frequent flier glitches than usual, as passenger information is misplaced during the transition.

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