Judging by the million-dollar football salaries, you'd be forgiven for thinking the UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations -- agreed in 2009 as a way of controlling clubs' ever-rising expenditure -- had done little to stem spending.

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These are all well-intentioned, but based on the numbers, none seem to actually be working to stem the rising tide of non-golfing citizens.

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The goal is to stem the rising tide of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, including those known as repetitive stress or repetitive strain injuries, that account for one third of all occupational injuries reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics each year.

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Regulators and drug industry executives are pulling their hair out trying to stem a rising tide of fake or low-quality medicines being sold online.

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Now the British prime minister is at it again in seeking to stem the United Kingdom's rising rate of unemployment--yet this time around it does not seem decisive enough.

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