Differences in study methodology, and type of healthcare costs included make it difficult, if not impossible to directly compare the results of existing studies.
Of course, our interests in Afghanistan include making it difficult for Al Qaeda to mount operations from that country and limiting Taliban use of Afghan territory to destabilize neighboring Pakistan.
The Senate proposed steps last month to revise Medicaid, including making it difficult for people to hide assets to qualify for nursing-home care and restricting access to some prescription drugs.
Authorities have recently moved to rein in the easy credit that has helped finance China's hyperdevelopment, including making it more difficult for home buyers to take out a second mortgage.
It is in fact the government's job to make a safer society through traffic laws, airport security screening, and gun legislation, and that includes making it more difficult for people contemplating suicide, who are abusive to their partners, the mentally ill, stalkers, and children to get their hands on guns.
There was also considerable variation in study populations across included studies, making it difficult to ascertain if interventions would benefit specific groups of children or families to a greater degree.
However, analysts said, it could weaken Mr. Abe in other ways, including by making it difficult for the hawkish prime minister to realize some of his noneconomic goals, like his long-expressed desire to revise Japan's pacifist Constitution to allow a full-fledged military instead of its current defense forces.
One item included several examples making it difficult to determine what the child would answer.
Two trials provided participants with discount coupons for healthier food choices and the other two trials included goal-setting, making it difficult to draw conclusions on the effectiveness of tailored nutrition education.
But, he argues, "Greece requires 16 other family members to support her jointly and the politics in many of these nations, including Germany, is making it difficult for the charade to continue".
