Test2000 : Head off the risk of your system going haywire and your data disappearing into the ether by making sure it complies with year-2000 standards.
The Treasury Secretary says that the administration has dropped its proposal that financial institutions offer "plain vanilla" versions of finanicial products, which critics have argued takes too much risk out of the system.
These attempt to manage the risk of the banking system through the superior guidance of complex rules based on black box mathematical algorithms.
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So, you kind of, without any incremental risk to the system, kind of step out and let each of your members trade against each other.
What Greece is being forced to do is threatening the legitimacy of a democratically elected government and putting at risk the legitimacy of the political system in general.
Viral infections in newborns "cripple" part of the immune system and increase the risk of asthma later in life, US researchers studying mice have said.
Yet if a hedge fund moves from London to Geneva, it does not reduce the risk of the British financial system one jot.
Often forgotten by the proponents of free enterprise medical care is that risk is the key element of the system free-marketers hold so dear.
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Admitting the possibility of spiraling inflation and of destabilizing the financial system, Bernanke said the risk of doing nothing is even worse.
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Even where they have not, depositors often assume that there is an implicit guarantee, because the government will step in rather than risk a collapse of the whole system.
And the regulators invented the Basel system of risk-weighted capital ratios, which stipulates different leverage ratios for different categories of loan, in theory to take account of the riskiness of those loans.
All the same, this report has argued that, on a balance of probabilities, banks that are smaller, more modular and better capitalised are less of a risk to the system than those that are very large and interconnected.
All regulators, and especially the Federal Reserve, were accused of failing to identify the housing market bubble that preceded the financial crisis, and the new council will be charged with spotting such a build-up of risk in the financial system in future.
On top of putting the entire financial system at risk, the hidden cost has been hundreds of billions of dollars funneled into the housing market instead of more productive assets.
Five of the 10 schools on our high-risk shortlist are part of the University of California system.
Adults with disabilities in England are being deprived of basic care and support and are at risk of being forgotten in the wider reform of the social care system, campaigners say.
Likewise, the standards-based reform movement of the 1990s has highlighted and given new urgency to the problems of students who are not being well served by the current education system and are thus at risk of failing to meet new, higher standards in the future.
Farmers of a few select crops such as wheat or maize can avoid almost all risk using the government's overlapping system of subsidised insurance, loans and payments.
Professor Lipkin is one of the leading advocates of a global early warning system for contagious disease to reduce the risk of the sort of pandemic seen in Contagion.
From analyzing trends to preventing overtraining and risk of injury, the micoach Elite System will help maintain optimum levels of player performance week in, week out throughout the season.
In the aftermath of 2010 floods, UNESCO has initiated a major project "Strategic Strengthening of Flood Warning and Management Capacity of Pakistan" for upgrading the flood forecasting and early warning system, and for the risk mapping of flood plains along the Indus River, in cooperation with the government of Japan.
System risk is a concern of regulators but not necessary of C-level finance executives.
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But the actions of prosecutors risk undermining the broader social system, with even more serious consequences.
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Again, it's very important to see risk-sharing, backstopping of the banking system to greater fiscal union.
Scientific evidence shows that humanity has put the functioning of the Earth system at risk.
One drawback of a system that disperses risk is that nobody knows who has lost how much.
At King's College hospital in London staff have been piloting the first universal screening system to identify the risk of malnutrition.
Yabuki is pushing his quants to come up with a more accurate system for assessing the risk of one consumer compared with another.
Rapamune, sold by Wyeth, suppresses the immune system and raises the risk of infection, so this study isn't a reason to start taking it.
Then a formal, thought-out system of supervision and risk management is created and applied at every level to ensure execution of the strategy and protection against internal and external threats.
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