Operators of critical infrastructure systems that people rely on for life-sustaining services have the added responsibility of ensuring their systems are at least protected with industry-consensus best practices.
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Another kind of sweepstakes took place in the NBA in 1997: the draft lottery for the rights to pick the consensus best player in the country, Wake Forest center Tim Duncan.
While it is true that a European popular consensus disagrees with America over the best way to deal with Iraq, there is clearly an overwhelming European consensus which believes that maintaining the transatlantic collective-security connection is a vital necessity in a dangerous world.
Nationally, there is no consensus on the best way to determine what makes a great teacher.
But an effort has been made to reach a consensus on how best to help Colombia.
The meeting revealed a broad consensus that the best short-term strategy is to tackle and eliminate the animal disease.
But the unity doesn't extend much beyond a consensus that the best thing these nations can do is hang together--for now.
Despite his best efforts to forge a consensus between developed and developing countries, the resulting Copenhagen Accord was weak and ineffectual.
New York is one of dozens of states moving to adopt new evaluation systems, though there is no consensus on how best to evaluate teachers.
However, while marketers have a clear vision when it comes to mobile, the same cannot be said for social media where marketers lack the same clear consensus on how to best utilize this new medium.
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But an un-Riis-like consensus has formed about how best to address the new slums' problems.
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The risk premium is thus, he suggests, also the market's best guess of the risk and opportunities attached to consensus profit forecasts.
Now, the reason that I'm not proposing the discretionary freeze take into effect this year -- we prepared a budget for 2010, it's now going forward -- is, again, I am just listening to the consensus among people who know the economy best.
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Might it not be best to drop the idea if there is so little consensus?
Instead, the government will want to try and reach a consensus with industry and the unions about the best way forward.
Dr King found that the only thing which explained the probability of lighting on the best patch was gesture use, which peaked just before consensus was reached.
The existing guidance on cord-clamping was published in 2007, when the consensus was that cutting the cord immediately was the best option - something which had been the case for decades.
Not surprisingly, The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media refuse to accept what in the real world amounts to definitive new evidence of Iranian intentions, or the consensus outside the left that the NIE was at best misleading.
It is therefore not surprising that the consensus still seems to be that the US is the best place to invest.
Although Best Buy reported profit of 47 cents a year ago, the consensus estimate calls for earnings per share of 31 cents.
Here the financial crisis has blown apart the fragile consensus between purists and Keynesians that monetary policy was the best way to smooth the business cycle.
Quite the best part about this is that Dani himself is a critic of that very Washington Consensus.
Roubini, best known for presciently anticipating the crisis of 2007 and 2008, predicts slightly slower than consensus growth in the coming year foreseeing a growth rate of 2.7% rather than the consensus 3.2%.
In the last three months, at best only 246, 000 nonfarm jobs were created in 2Q 2012 (using the June consensus forecast of 100, 000 nonfarm jobs) compared to 677, 000 nonfarm jobs created during the first three months of 2012 according to BLS data.
The research also suggests that there is no consensus around any particular proposal and that partisan differences lead to different conclusions about the best solutions.
In fact, it now appears that this pessimistic view has become the consensus position of those who influence policy, even such figures as George Kennan whose proclivity for "best-case" assessments of the USSR is well-established.
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