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Since the Irish Republican Army refuses to decommission its weapons before representatives of Sinn Fein, its political wing, are seated in the new Northern Ireland executive, and since the Unionist leader refuses to call the assembly to order before the IRA gives up at least some of its arms, the current stalemate seems fairly intractable.
The problems associated with sedation in end-of-life care and the different attitudes among clinicians and palliative care experts are reflected in inconsistent terminology [ 5 ] , variation in techniques used to induce, maintain and monitor sedation [ 6 ] , duration of and frequency of application, different concepts on the time of administering sedation and on intentions [ 7 ] . While the ambiguous term "terminal sedation (TS)" [ 8 9 ] is used most often, other terms more clearly reflect the different viewpoints: "sedation for intractable distress in the imminently dying [ 10 11 ] ;", end-of-life sedation [ 12 ] "slow-euthanasia" [ 13 ] , "palliative sedation" [ 14 ] , "total sedation" [ 15 ] , "sedation in the final phase", "palliative sedation therapy" [ 16 ] .
The problem is nearly intractable because of the way the government is currently structured.
But what has long been clear to economists is that increasing returns normally lead to imperfect competition, and that imperfect competition can be a messy and intractable subject.
In it, Mann calls for reform to correct an intractable problem: the "breaking up of rural schools."