Our market economy has shown no ability to solve these problems, and our gridlocked, fragmented political system has shown very little.
Already, the system has shown that the planet is being continually struck by large speeding rocks, and that the rate of bombardment is higher than previously thought.
Thereafter, direct bank recapitalisation should only take place once the system has shown itself to be effective.
THE near-collapse of the banking system has shown just how deep some central parts of economic life are buried.
The corporate entertainment system has shown itself perfectly capable of injecting soul into what it sells, and at inflecting some of its products with a critical spirit.
"If you can't establish your own, this system has shown you that it is not going to accept you in their house," he said.
But as costs for everything from new drugs or high-tech equipment to hospital construction have risen, the system has shown the strains, as have other government-financed health care services in Britain, Germany and Scandinavia.
The public health system has shown signs of strain in handling even the relatively small-scale incidents in which anthrax was mailed to addresses in Florida, New York, Washington, D.C., and Reno, Nev.
Parents in this urban school district, which has recently redoubled its efforts to reverse years of poor student performance, wondered why the cuts were being made even though the system has shown some improvement on state achievement tests.
Mr. Svimonishvili said his registration system has shown that the Mukuzani region produces enough grapes to make about 1.4 million bottles of wine each year bearing the Mukuzani name.
Since the days of Margaret Thatcher, the education system has shown a Soviet fixation with churning out more mathematicians and scientists, suborning even the BBC to shower them with celebrity.
