This has led 'to a fundamental mismatch between what people wanted to do and the facilities available', said Nicholson.

A result of the tax-cut crusade is that there is now a fundamental mismatch between the benefits Americans expect to receive from the government and the revenues government collect.

In the United States, there is a fundamental mismatch between traditional American love of personal liberty and the top-down, authoritarian manner in which the American workplace has operated.

But it, too, suffers from fundamental mismatches of parts, especially John C. Reilly's sexually unmagnetic Stanley (2:45).

"We have a fundamental mismatch between how students learn and the lecture method," says Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College at Columbia University.

Republicans have often said Mr. Clinton's underlying plan is nothing more than an accounting shell game that fails to address the fundamental mismatch between promised benefits and the revenues to pay them.

In a brief chapter called "Being Analog," Norman touches on the fundamental mismatch between humans and computers that underlies our ambivalent relationship with technology.

"There is a fundamental mismatch between the city's fiscal structure and our level of fiscal autonomy."

Given this fundamental mismatch, it is wholly unsurprising that its answer was no.

All the attention in the world does not address the fundamental mismatch between employment-starved residents and companies with job requirements they cannot meet.