"Although quite a lot has happened over the last year, the central problem that got us into the crisis has not been solved," said Dennis J. Snower, president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany, who was to moderate a panel in Davos on global risks.
Every pitcher is a code to be deciphered, but the central problem that Mike Mussina presents for hitters is that they cannot find patterns in what he does, no clues to the code.
Its patchwork platform, "America First," offered no remedy to the central problem that he identified, "the rigged system".
The tensions among Republican lawmakers reflect the central problem that Mr. Boehner faced through several rounds of negotiations over federal spending last year.
The S.E.C. now promises modest new measures to contain the damage that the rating agencies can do — measures that fail to address the central problem: that the raters are paid by the issuers.
Marcelo P. Lima Miami, Jan . 5 2009 To the Editor: Michael Lewis and David Einhorn write that the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed "measures that fail to address the central problem: that the raters are paid by the issuers".
Consider first of all the central problem that the book identifies: the idea that the public sector takes most of the risks in the modern innovation process, but gets little of the reward.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle pay lip service to the Weimar Triangle instead of grappling with the central problem that plagues Polish-German relations: how to overcome their differences toward Russia.
James Gibson's (1979) account of vision challenged the idea that the central problem that the visual system has to solve is how to reconstruct a full-blown, three-dimensional world from the information specified in the two-dimensional image on the retina.
She points to not only curriculum overload but to the central problem that every first year teacher faces: discipline.
