But until there is clear commitment from the top down, this issue can continue to fester.
Twenty-two years after the last U.S. combat troops left Vietnam, old psychic wounds still fester.
The Cyprus financial crisis continues to fester and the market place remains uneasy about it.
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And now we all have to pay the penalty for allowing that culture to fester.
Do you have a working environment that allows bad behaviors to take hold and fester?
India's democracy responds quickly to acute crises, but allows chronic problems to fester for too long.
This feud will continue to fester under the next president, whoever that may be.
This leaves expensive, robust compliance programs collecting dust, while violations continue to fester, eroding shareholder value.
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Long-promised regeneration projects have stalled, leaving empty dwellings in the poorest parts of Crewe to fester.
But the shake-up demonstrates Mr. Cook's resolve to tackle thorny personnel issues that Mr. Jobs let fester.
Big-power interests seem certain to ensure that regional rivalries will continue to fester in the combustible Caucasus.
That may have kept the lid on, but at the cost of allowing underlying problems to fester.
However, the European Union debt crisis continues to fester with no easy fixes.
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However, letting a nasty problem fester almost always guarantees a future crisis.
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If you're a manager and let things fester, staffers will see you as a coward, an incompetent or perhaps both.
Gold prices soared to a new record in early trading Tuesday as the European Union debt crisis continues to fester.
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Case in point: the so-called Tudor Rose, a life-sized diamond rose brooch created by Parisian jeweler Theodore Fester in 1855.
Lame brands were allowed to fester on shelves, and each country manager was buying his own size bottle of ketchup.
This means that the region's unsettled questions, and particularly the question of Palestine, cannot be allowed to fester any longer.
And I suffer from that special kind of laziness that comes from letting a problem fester until dealing with it becomes unthinkable.
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JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, for example, have a reputation for moving quickly on defaults, while Bank of America allows them to fester.
Concealed, avoided or otherwise ignored, conflict will likely fester only to grow into resentment, create withdrawal or cause factional infighting within an organization.
If both sides do not commit to these talks in earnest, then the longstanding conflict will only continue to fester and consume another generation.
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By neglecting strategic concerns on the African subcontinent, conditions threatening to peace and security that were allowed to fester now greatly imperil U.S. interests.
And he has taken too long to produce his plan for dealing with the trillions of dollars of toxic assets which fester on banks' balance-sheets.
The incumbents are culpable for letting a bad system fester for so long, and Mr Cameron produced a better and bolder response than Mr Brown.
Facing umpteen problems, Mr Mahuad has chosen to deal with one at a time, while others fester and discontent soars (and his own poll ratings slump).
They are emblematic of a broader strategic distrust, which if left to fester, may not provoke full-scale war, but could well lead to localised armed clashes.
So keep acting, do as many films as you can, do not sit at home because if you sit at home, it's just going to fester.
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