Such a proactive approach can tackle the mounting problems of waste collection and disposal.
Ultimately, an internal "loss forecasting tool" traced the mounting problems to "exogenous" factors — external problems like the souring economy.
After a period of being in control and calling the shots, he is increasingly trying to keep the mounting problems at bay.
But his high degree of control and length of time in post mean he cannot escape responsibility for the mounting problems.
Having offered assurances that the Fukushima water leaks posed no threat to the health of greater Tokyo's 35 million residents, Abe is expected to come under renewed pressure to address the mounting problems at the plant.
The mounting problems from the soured bets strengthen the hand of lawmakers in Washington who have been pushing to curtail the kind of risk-taking that led to the trading losses.
Though this still represents a very small proportion of the overall population, it provides another stark indication of the mounting problems facing successive governments as they struggle to finance demands on the welfare state including a rising state pension bill.
Kilcullen initially assumed that the Afghan intelligence reports that the I.S.I. was "running the war" were just "a convenient excuse," he said, to deflect attention from the mounting problems within Karzai's government, such as widespread corruption and weak administration.
