The author does acknowledge the conundrum of how to assign responsibility when it comes to the public-health scourge of obesity.

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Dealerships are required to have a Red Flags Rule plan in place and to assign responsibility to a specific manager.

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The trial will determine the causes of the spill, and assign responsibility to the parties involved, including BP, Halliburton, Transocean, and Cameron, which manufactured the blowout preventer meant to stop oil leaks.

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Establish a board Risk Committee (separate from the Audit Committee) and assign it responsibility for enterprise risk (including IT risks).

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First, he ordered the intelligence community to assign specific responsibility to individuals to pursue all leads on specific high-priority threats.

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Too often, teams spend so much time figuring out what needs to be done, how it needs to be done and when it needs to be done, that they neglect to assign specific responsibility for making sure it gets done.

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During his opening statement, Mr Campbell described Cornwell as "a demanding client" who "tends to push off responsibility and assign blame when things go off track".

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