The world needs a framework to prevent the risks of further fragmentation.
Waiting for high levels of scientific and clinical proof before taking action to prevent well-known risks can lead to very high health and economic costs, as was the case with asbestos, leaded petrol and tobacco.
It would also examine whether the Care Quality Commission or Monitor, an independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts, had the skills, experience or resources to properly scrutinise the financial structures of companies, or the power to take effective action to prevent financial failure if risks emerge.
What remains to be seen is measures being taken now and in near future to make these markets increasingly streamlined and to prevent them from becoming systemic risks.
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Organizations must be keenly aware of the risks of unlocking and prevent unlocked phones on their network.
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The government wants to know what the risks are and how to prevent attacks.
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The agency also faulted the company for not addressing flood risks and not taking adequate measures to prevent a spill.
The opposition's boycott may also bring the opposition into disrepute for a more basic reason: it risks being seen as an attempt to prevent debate on a crucial piece of legislation, the budget.
"When (a futures commission merchant's) financial risk controls are so lacking that they do virtually nothing to prevent an unchecked customer from taking grossly excessive trading risks as happened here, a harmful domino effect of financially dangerous consequences can follow, affecting not only the FCM but also potentially other customers and the market at large, " said David Meister, the CFTC's enforcement director.
"We have seen an epidemic of excuses wrongly citing health and safety as a reason to prevent people from doing pretty harmless things with only very minor risks attached, " he said.
But what Treasury Secretary Geithner and others have done is to discuss with the regulators what we are hearing in the field and to make sure that there is a consistency of approach that doesn't prevent banks from making what are good loans and taking reasonable risks.
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Current government policy states it is not possible to prevent all areas from erosion, but "action is being taken to manage the risks and reduce its impact".
There are further risks ahead as the judge could treble damages and grant an injunction to prevent Samsung from selling its wares in the United States.
Taking these risks into account, they believe that adding rosiglitazone to basic lifestyle recommendations could prevent substantially more people developing diabetes.
The ostensible purpose of this is to prevent another credit debacle, which the Fed and others believe was the result of excessive risks that bank executives and employees took to earn more money.
To prevent either from being set freely by supply and demand is to block financial markets from pricing these risks rationally.
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