But feeling good about where he stands is not a problem for this chief executive.
It might succeed, but it might also induce businesses to set up in areas where road usage is free, perversely spreading congestion to places where it is not a serious problem now.
One possible new territory where preemption is not a big problem is litigation over environmental debacles. (Witness the recent extraction of money from gasoline refiners who damaged groundwater with a federally approved additive.) The tort mavens also talked about switching to securities law, a field not especially starving for practitioners.
Where we have a real problem is in not for profits: where there is no such incentive.
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The main economic justification for rail subsidies is to ease congestion or pollution, yet the bulk of the rail subsidy goes to areas such as the Highlands where these are not much of a problem.
In fact, I had had a similar problem not a few weeks before where our server refused to load Windows after downloading and installing an update overnight.
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Dr Stevens said the quality of care given by doctors and nurses was not a concern, nor was it about a problem with triage - where patients are seen initially for an assessment about the urgency of treatment needed.
"There will always be some 'bet the company' problem where a client will not quibble about rates, " said Mr. Jones, the Georgetown fellow.
That's not a problem for many people in Illinois counties where conventional oil and gas drilling has been going on for over a century.
This also helps with the problem where there are many seed funded companies but not enough Series A investors.
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In South Africa, where more than a third of the workforce is jobless, the problem is not that corporations are unethical but that there are not enough of them.
"I am aware of the risk but the fact is I'd rather make it to the point where I might see long-term effects than have a problem now and not get to that point, " he says.
Yes, we have a problem with the financial -- and the economy is not where it needs to be, but we can fix it.
The Home Office told CNN earlier on Monday that the contractor was suffering from a software problem which meant they could not guarantee who would turn up where, and whether guards had the right training.
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In a country where natural disasters are so common, the authorities' main problem is often not the volcano, earthquake or typhoon, but the popular belief that when your number is up, your number is up.
It is a fundamental problem of any free trade area, such as the EU, where movement of goods is not only legal but encouraged.
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