• Even after radiation levels in the Fukushima main control room had spiked to 1, 000 times normal levels, radioactive steam had been vented into the environment, and hydrogen explosions had demolished large parts of two reactor buildings, sending radioactive debris a thousand feet into the air, NISA only raised the threat assessment to level 5 the same as the far less catastrophic accident at Three Mile Island.

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  • Section V develops a top-level assessment of the costs associated with sculpting the planned force structure to meet the two-MRC test.

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  • So I think people need to have an honest assessment of the level of volatility that they can withstand realistically over time.

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  • She was speaking during Wales questions on 23 November 2011 after Labour's Karl Turner asked for her assessment of the level of unemployment in Wales.

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  • "The fact that there's an assessment made at this level -- a level three -- which is very serious, indicates to me, and to a lot of people, how serious this problem is, " said Sen.

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  • By turn, applicants take the WorkKeys assessment to measure their skill level and identify ways to improve, through online training, the skills that employers seek.

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  • The Department for Children, Schools and Families is piloting a possible replacement in the form of "single level tests" that children would take to confirm their teachers' assessment that they had reached a higher national curriculum attainment level.

    BBC: Delays hit pupils' test results

  • They should be free of the "bureaucratic box ticking assessment" and "micro-level" prescription that he says is a feature of current vocational qualifications.

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  • Students are placed in the level according to their initial level as measured by a placement assessment.

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  • Indeed, research by exams group Cambridge Assessment found three A grades at A-level was achieved by 17.5% of students in 2009.

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  • Mr. Ruiz said that Hapinoy is currently conducting self-assessment surveys with shop owners to determine their level of satisfaction with the program.

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  • For political reasons, assessment findings were restricted initially to the national level and to large subsections, such as urban vs. rural or by regions of the country.

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  • The programme is divided into three levels, and through an initial diagnostic assessment, the facilitators assign students to the level that is in accordance with their initial skills and knowledge.

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  • And the calculation used by the Dutch to assess the level of regulatory burden relies on self-assessment by firms, which may overstate the true cost.

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  • In a written statement, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge said the decision to lower the risk level followed a review of intelligence and an assessment of the threats by the intelligence community.

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  • At the core of the predominant current Western assessment lies the assumption that Gorbachev is, at a fundamental level, a Western rationalist in a modern mold.

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  • With regard to IPU, this commitment will not go unheeded, since an assessment of what has been done in 2008 at the national level to combat maternal and infant mortality will be presented at the next IPU Assembly, which will be held from 5 to 10 April 2009 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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  • Complacency is partly to blame: until recently few state-level politicians seemed to share Mr Singh's grave assessment.

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  • In the OECD's annual study of educational performance, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), girls score better in reading in all countries even at primary level, and much better by the time they are 15.

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  • In that regard, we received the Interim Report of the High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth, and welcomed the Group's thorough assessment of all the options to achieve that objective.

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  • However, by the time they reach middle school, only 32% are at or above a proficient level in math, according to the 2007 Nation's Report Card by National Assessment of Educational Progress, and they fall behind internationally.

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  • The UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir John Beddington, meanwhile, has had to revise his previously optimistic assessment to include the "worst case scenario" of radiation reaching Tokyo, albeit at a level which could be protected against.

    BBC: Japan nuclear threat: The tsunami is the bigger tragedy

  • If shares change in value, that must reflect a change in investors' assessment of either the prospective dividend flow (for example, because of fears about the future level of profits) or the right discount rate (for example, because of a change in inflationary prospects or in long-term real interest rates), or both.

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  • The mishandling of grey literature has resulted in many of the errors discovered in the most recent Assessment Report, which summarizes the state of climate change science for policymakers and political learders at every level of government.

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  • Cambridge Assessment, which runs the OCR exam board, found many lecturers believed students arrived unprepared for degree-level work, with three-in-five academics running catch-up classes.

    BBC: Michael Gove wants universities to create new A-levels

  • In the latest national assessment of school performance, 40% of American ten-year-olds were unable to read at their grade level.

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