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Nor do these studies address the structural and systematic issues that contribute to obesity, such as poverty and stress.
Why Your New Year’s Diet Will Fail|Carrie Arnold|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Common sense is not a just a normative judgment about wisdom, but a structural feature of any functioning organization.
Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sadly, the end of the Cold War has given license to structural decay.
Stock Market America and the Rest of Us|Lloyd Green|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But beneath them there are underlying structural issues that will be even harder to fix.
VA Scandal: How a General Lost Command|Jacob Siegel|May 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

As hard as those structural reforms will be, changing the culture may be even harder.
VA Scandal: How a General Lost Command|Jacob Siegel|May 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Some structural features not previously used were found to have taxonomic significance.
Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks|John A. White
Massinger and Field accepted frankly the structural awkwardness of their plot as they had fashioned or found it.
The Fatal Dowry|Philip Massinger
The structural fault is less surprising when it is ascertained to be fundamentalinevitable in the theme.
The Fatal Dowry|Philip Massinger
Structural wrought iron has a tenacity of 20 to 22 tons per sq. in.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
Anatomically we find that we must place man with the apelike mammals, because of these numerous points of structural likeness.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter