Erosion-control practices and drought-resistant crop hybrids are just two examples of ways in which modern agriculture attempts to mitigate the impacts of severe drought.
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It said it operated "strict infection control practices" which had resulted in the numbers of MRSA infections identified within the trust being reduced by over 50% over the last two years.
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The controversy is over whether or not the Senate will vote to stop the Federal Communications Commission from doing what Congress never authorized it to do in the first place, namely, to implement its December 2010 order to regulate traffic control practices on the Internet.
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For example, there are 189 ISO standards for information security, our National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) has produced a full set of world-class materials on information security, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA) has developed its best practices, the Control Objectives for Information Technology ( CobiT).
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"What comes from the Operation Clean Halls case is going to result in a major step toward dismantling the NYPD's out of control stop and frisk practices, " she said.
They must rigorously monitor and control their business and supply chain practices to assure this does not happen again.
Mechler, said the company has improved its employee-training program and overhauled its clean-up practices to ensure better control of sugar dust.
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Now is the time to let go of our illusion of control and embrace the technologies and practices that enable a more open, productive and transparent enterprise.
Pixar , now owned by The Walt Disney Co. (nyse: DIS - news - people ), unveiled issues with its options accounting this week, though Disney said Wednesday that it didn't expect the problems to have any material impact on the company, and that the practices took place before it took control of the company.
In 2007, the NTSB, citing a series of fatigue-related air traffic control incidents, implored the FAA to reform its scheduling practices and implement a fatigue-management program, but the FAA took no action.
About meditation and breath work, a greater understanding of various meditative and breath practices opens the door to empowering people to take control of their own health and well-being.
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Most of these new varieties are designed to be resistant to pests and diseases, or to be resistant to herbicides, so that farmers can more effectively control weeds while adopting more environment-friendly no-till farming practices and more benign herbicides.
We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control plants.
Now, for the avoidance of doubt, there is a trend here - which is that every big British bank is struggling to keep control of the costs of fines and compensation relating to a great variety of forms of sloppy practices and misbehaviour in the boom years.
Mr Makino says that the traditional distribution practices of the keiretsu, or families of firms, ensured that manufacturers had a lot of control over high-street prices.
Domestically, Clinton supports universal health care, gun control, repealing Bush-era tax cuts, energy independence and pay-as-you-go budget practices.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a very clear and practical document that most practitioners utilize to develop protocols in their practices.
Companies that embrace best practices, as well as automated fuel-purchasing technology or outsourcing, enjoy a newfound ability to control their costs, improve their bottom lines, and move confidently into the future.
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