But if the value-added figure is driven by a mistaken assessment of risk, a quite different picture emerges.
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Snow said a federal bailout would be an "intrusion" on the markets and a disruption to the assessment of risk.
The preexisting condition rule places crippling limits on the ability of insurers to create policies based on their best assessment of risk.
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Many of the political decisions that have to be taken - and sold to the public - involve such an assessment of risk.
This approach made the assessment of risk more opaque.
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Although the prescription to base your compliance efforts on an assessment of risk is the most basic of common sense axioms, and although it applies generally to your entire compliance program, the Department of Justice has driven the point home and made it clear as well that an anti-corruption risk assessment is an absolute must-do.
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What the Department for Transport appears to have got chronically wrong in the case of the West Coast Main Line franchise is its assessment of the risk that attaches to projections by bidders of revenues in the latter years of the 15-year franchise.
In Devon officers mustn't throw out a life-belt in an emergency without first conducting an assessment of the risk to themselves.
It claims the decision was based on historical statistics and without proper assessment of future risk in respect of population increases in Windsor and Slough.
Some experts have cast doubt on whether the statistical analysis used to interpret the data in the study gives an accurate assessment of true risk.
That probability gives you a pretty good assessment of default risk.
Most retail investors do not have a clue of the risks they run in buying such debt and the market provides an assessment of that risk.
This is an assessment of business risk, after all.
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Under these laws, up to 70% of immigrants in detention are required to be imprisoned, without any individual assessment of their risk to public safety, while the government tries to prove that it has the authority to deport them.
The idea of a federal risk assessment of the private sector is daunting, especially when the federal government has not been able to perform such an assessment of its own risks.
One of the keys to rational risk assessment is to assess the risk of doing something versus the risk of not doing something.
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It's part of a risk assessment study of the area done shortly after the hurricane.
In fact, most of the highly precautionary laws and regulations currently on the books include some form of risk assessment that error on the side of caution, building in a host of safety factors that substantially overestimate exposure to justify regulatory actions that may not be necessary.
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In itself, this anxiety is a form of health risk and must be addressed with understanding and compassion by those responsible for their treatment......The NHS will support removal of PIP implants if, informed by an assessment of clinical need, risk and the impact of unresolved concerns, a woman with her doctor decides that it is right to do so.
Individuals with high triglyceride levels should undergo further assessment of other cardiovascular risk factors, such as obesity, hypertension, abnormal glucose metabolism, and liver dysfunction.
Cattle can only move onto a TB restricted farm prior to the completion of a veterinary risk assessment and completion of a TB test, carried out 60 days after an infected animal has left the farm.
Under the new treaty, arms transfers must not be authorized where there is a major risk the weapons will be used to commit violations of human rights or international humanitarian law, among other risk-assessment criteria, which also include the risk of gender-based violence, diversion and undermining peace and security.
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Last August West Yorkshire Probation Trust admitted failures in their initial risk assessment of Aziz.
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Organiser Ben Robinson told Carlisle Crown Court he paid safety specialist Piper Event Services Limited to carry out a risk assessment of the site.
After all, if Vioxx was sold mainly as safer on the stomach, shouldn't the chance of heart risks have radically changed the risk-benefit assessment of the drug?
He said the firm had been recommended and he had asked it to carry out a risk assessment of the site and produce a safety management plan.
Delegates voted overwhelmingly for a campaign urging councils to visit injured staff at home and to carry out a risk assessment of volatile children before staff return to work.
The Cyprus bank bailout situation has calmed down for the moment, but the overall European Union sovereign debt crisis remains as an undercurrent in the risk assessment of the market place.
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The SEC, he said, has often updated its assessment of what constitutes material risk for investors, beginning with new environmental criteria following the Love Canal toxic dump scandal of the late 1970s.
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