Snow said a federal bailout would be an "intrusion" on the markets and a disruption to the assessment of risk.
This approach made the assessment of risk more opaque.
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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.
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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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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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.
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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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?
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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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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The utility of outside counsel as part of the risk assessment function varies broadly.
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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.
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.
In Devon officers mustn't throw out a life-belt in an emergency without first conducting an assessment of the risk to themselves.
It's part of a risk assessment study of the area done shortly after the hurricane.
"We did a risk assessment for the city of Macau, and we found the greatest risk to the economy wasn't things like organized crime, " said Steve Vickers, CEO of International Risk.
' It asks for the private owners of critical infrastructure to develop risk assessment plans, and plans to mitigate that risk, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security.
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The World Wide Fund for Nature, which wants a comprehensive risk assessment of the European coastline carried out as a way of trying to prevent further spills, sent an expert to Brittany to assess the impact of the latest accident.
And there may be renewed calls from Labour peers for the Department of Health to publish its risk register - the document setting out its assessment of the risks of the NHS changes in the Bill.
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As, in fact, the person who was in charge of Systemic Risk Assessment Division within the Financial Stability department from 2005 should have known in fact.
Many of the political decisions that have to be taken - and sold to the public - involve such an assessment of risk.
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.
It called on the health secretary to carry out robust scrutiny, including risk assessment, of the impact of job losses in the NHS on the safety and quality of patient care and the provision of frontline NHS services.
Answers to these questions will contribute to a better assessment of the earthquake hazard and risk in a region where more than 50 million people are at risk from future earthquakes and associated landslides and outburst floods.
"We believe that farmers should have the opportunity to work closely with their own vets so that, subject to a risk assessment and the approval of suitable separation facilities on the farm, new animals can be brought in without having to wait at least two months, " he added.
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.
Joint WHO missions with Saudi Arabia and Tunisia will take place as soon as possible, with the goal of gathering the facts needed to conduct a risk assessment, Chan said Monday.
Any assessment of the degree of SME credit risk relies on deep knowledge of the borrower.
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.
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.
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