Plant breeders have learned from experience about the need for risk analysis, assessment and management.

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But in the weeks and months ahead, we will continue a sustained and intensive effort of analysis and assessment so we leave no stone unturned in seeking better ways to protect the American people.

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This assessment must blend quantitative analysis with intuitive awareness.

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We'll want them to pull in all that information and sort it out between rumor and suspicion and fact and speculation and misinformation, and do an assessment, do an analysis, and then communicate it -- if it's a real threat, communicate that to state and local governments.

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"We'll want them to pull in all that information and sort it out between rumor and suspicion and fact and speculation and misinformation and do an assessment, do an analysis and then communicate it -- if it's a real threat -- communicate that to state and local governments, " Ridge said.

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The assessment is based on an analysis of where the animal's spine would have entered the skull and the position of muscle attachments on its head.

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Negroponte has made another Foreign Service Officer with a record of downplaying threats - Thomas Fingar, former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research - his senior Deputy for Analysis, a critical job in the assessment of all classified information.

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Also emphasized in this strategy is a more robust risk assessment component that incorporates product life cycle analysis and ethical, legal, and societal implications of nanotechnology.

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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.

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So, too, would a more systematic analysis of the exchange-rate adjustments needed to get there, as well as an assessment of the spillovers between countries' policies.

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Forbes spoke with Louis Jacques, the director of the Coverage and Analysis Group at the Medicare center, to learn more about the process, called a National Coverage Assessment, and the decision that will result after a period of public comment and the accrual of scientific data, called a National Coverage Determination.

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And that's not our -- I mean, that is our assessment, but it's an assessment, as you know because you guys are serious, substantive reporters, is backed by independent analysis from all corners.

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