However nasty influenza is, though (and it can be very nasty indeed), it is what Donald Rumsfeld would call a known unknown.
If Spain tips into crisis in the next few months, the odds are that it will be because of something nasty happening to balance sheets at the local level which shocks the markets - in Donald Rumsfeld's phrase, that is the 'known unknown' that makes everyone nervous.
Spread the marketing funds wide to introduce the public to lesser-known or unknown writers and new writing.
His actors are little known or unknown, and the dialogue is delivered wholly in a dialect of Mayan.
But like countless battles, known and unknown, it is a proud chapter in the story of the American soldier.
My work is trying to map that in-between space between known and unknown, the constant hovering between two states.
But they did more than just survive in the grass green water, dense with algae and other substances, known and unknown.
The Zumwalt has the power, cooling, space and weight margin designed to meet the full spectrum of future threats, both known and unknown.
By randomizing patients, almost all factors (known or unknown) that might influence the outcome are present in equal proportions in the various treatment groups.
When water, person-to-person and other means of transmission are included, the full tally of acute gastrointestinal illnesses from known and unknown pathogens leaps to 210m cases a year.
As proposed, any strategy for reducing, avoiding, or deferring tax liability, whether known or unknown at the time of the invention or application for a patent, would not qualify.
This, many believe, is an insult to India's many well-known and unknown - and unsung - activists who are working quietly and ushering in changes without whining loudly that India has failed itself.
It easy to forget when you're standing in the middle of a city of birds - but listening to these sounds now, I can't help remembering that the albatrosses and penguins populations are declining sharply for reasons known and unknown.
Would he stay behind the curtain and think about things, marinate in his own confusion, or would he put on his white fur suit and howl and scratch and make it known who was boss of this house and of all the world known and unknown?
But in practice the heads of operational units will favour the known over the unknown.
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He provides more detail in his contribution to the recent book edited by Herring, The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable in Financial Risk Management.
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Both Hawley and Pistole have embraced "risk-based security, " the concept that the government should use intelligence and best practices to focus on known threats and unknown people.
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In the absence of a clear and driving threat, such as that provided by the Soviet Union, its role was as a placeholder, allowing defense planners and budgeters to define a useful and affordable military capability that could respond to the range of known demands and unknown future contingencies.
He said developing countries have felt it is more important to deal with "known risks" than unknown risks like smallpox, while industrialised nations have different priorities.
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It includes objects from more than 100 designers and lenders, including some of the biggest names in the jewelry industry along with well-known independent designers and unknown artisans.
The room is packed with versions of the man running here and there, talking to himself about this and that, making plans on the phone and staring out the window and falling in love and falling out of love and finding himself loved and unloved and hated and feared and liked and disliked and ignored and unknown and known.
And only 10% of the life forms inhabiting that unknown world are known to those on the surface.
She was well known with conservative insiders but unknown outside.
Locating genes that code for more than one protein could allow Rosetta to find drug targets in tissues that were not considered drugable by finding previously unknown exons in known genes, Friend says.
Appreciating communication requires a shift in focus to encompass not just the known and predictable, but the unknown as well.
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But the difference, overall, last year vs. heading in, you know, this year heading into '10 is the unknown vs. the known.
As Donald Rumsfeld might have put it, they have left a world of known unknowns for a twilight landscape of unknown unknowns.
Nokia has been making smartphones for years, using a proprietary (and aging) operating system known as Symbian, that is almost unknown in the U.S. but that is in heavy use all around the rest of the glob e.
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