WASHINGTON — While much of the Congressional debate over consumer financial protection has focused on banks, lawmakers have been grappling behind the scenes over whether and how to regulate payday lenders, debt collectors, check-cashing outlets, title and installment lenders and even pawnbrokers.
That raises questions about whether a US counter-terrorism bureaucracy long focused on al-Qaida as a prime threat can grapple with the group's decline and a different one's ascent.
To-date, the company has focused on engaging patients who are 60 and older and grappling with issues like: COPD, heart failure, diabetes and other age-associated health problems.
Many academic studies, and some overseas works, notably Leslie T. Chang's "Factory Girls," have focused on the special challenges facing female migrant workers as they grapple with new freedoms in the cities.
While arguments have focused on the morality of under occupancy rules, housing associations have been left to grapple with minimising the impact on those affected and acting in the best interests of others and the organisation as a whole.
Though the researchers focused on academia, many of the study's findings are also applicable to the private sector, which is grappling with its own sexual misconduct crisis.
The company spent the first part of this year grappling with the repercussions of the alleged rape of a passenger, but it has since focused on building out its core business.
Congress and President Bush are also grappling with how much to spend on education, but local school superintendents said that federal money represented such a small amount of their budgets that they had not focused on the debate in Washington.
Stay focused on exercise.
For some, plowing through line after line of iambic pentameter on a four-inch screen may actually be a more comfortable way to focus on Shakespeare than grappling with the bulky Riverside edition.
