When Mr Brown took over, his calm handling of incidents as varied as a terrorist plot and summer floods raised hopes that he could at least run a competent if uninspiring government.

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Meanwhile more than half of prisoners reported feeling unsafe and inspectors criticised the handling of violent incidents.

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The visits by Healthcare Improvement Scotland followed a report on the handling of serious incidents at NHS Ayrshire and Arran last year.

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The truth is that this is pretty much never the case, that such incidents are almost always caused by surface handling errors, and are remediated very quickly.

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In recent years, passing on sensitive data points like e-mail addresses and credit card codes to marketing partners has also been a frequent source of corporate data breaches--about 40% of all breach incidents were a result of a third party's handling of data, according to another Ponemon study, released in November 2007.

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It is the fear of seeing isolated incidents turn into a prairie fire that guides China's handling of unrest.

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The company has been handling sporting events since 2000 and hasn't had any prior known incidents with its cameras.

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