Its costs overwhelm workplace health insurance schemes.

The advent of shale gas has confused the energy debate even more. If gas is substituted for coal, it can be a useful bridge to a low carbon future.

Shirk s title still captures a significant phenomenon that bedevils diplomatic affairs.

But Chinese officials viewed the move as proof that Japan was trying to disrupt the status quo.

Likewise, the undue emphasis on consensus only serves to confuse and obfuscate the issue.

But, like any muddle, it is succeeding only in confusing Russians about themselves and their country.

The purpose of confinement in a box is not to disorient someone, but to give the detainee a feeling of discomfort.

For importers and exporters, quoting prices in the same currency say, the dollar as other importers and exporters avoids confusing one s customers.

OIOS noted cases where belligerents would try to confuse peacekeeping units through disinformation in order to gain tactical or material advantages.

In Germany itself, failure to achieve a politically integrated federal Europe baffled pro integration political forces and dented the war generation s moral authority.

This approach severely limits rival states options by confounding their deterrence plans and making it difficult for them to devise proportionate or effective counter measures.

Moreover, certain States are attempting to confuse matters even further by stating that peacebuilding operations enjoy a greater margin for action such as in conflict and pre conflict situations.

But Chinese officials viewed the move as proof that Japan was trying to disrupt the status quo. Some even claimed that Japan was trying to reverse the territorial outcome of WWII.

As a result, divisive politics is now overwhelming constructive economic policymaking.

The virus is shaped so that it can drill into a particular feature of that cell and inject parts of itself inside, confusing the cell into making more viruses and destroying itself in the process.

But eventually central banks must pull the plug. Otherwise they will end up in intensive care themselves as credit losses overwhelm their balance sheets.

This intergovernmental approach lay behind the Lisbon Agenda s failure to deliver the results needed to make Europe more competitive and dynamic by 2010, and the same shortcomings will bedevil its successor, the new Europe 2020 strategy.

If governments continue to stumble from one patchwork remedy to another a probability that remains uncomfortably high the delay in implementing a comprehensive solution will eventually overwhelm the defenses that the ECB has so courageously put in place.

Furthermore, instability confuses the policymaking process. Even a downward revision by 0.2 of GDP is meaningful it implies a deterioration of the structural deficit by about 0.1 of GDP not a trivial number in a fiscally constrained environment.