Mr. Prendergast began his career in 1975 at the Chicago Transit Authority, the Mr. Cuomo's office said, before moving to Washington and then to New York in 1982 as director of system safety for the New York City Transit Authority in 1982.
The airport itself points to problems with the fire safety system as the immediate cause of the delays: The fire safety system incorporates some 75, 000 sprinklers, but computer programming glitches mean it's not clear whether all of these sprinklers would spray enough water during a fire.
The representative said Tropicana is "safe, " that PepsiCo has a "food safety system designed to ensure the safety of our products, " and reiterated that the company will follow the FDA's guidance.
Under our current system of safety-and-soundness regulation, supervisors often focus on the financial conditions of individual institutions in isolation.
The administration's funding authorization expires Sept. 30, and it needs more money to address the booming volume of air traffic, primarily because the air traffic control system needs safety and security upgrades.
Through collaboration with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), the worldwide system of navigational and meteorological areas associated with the Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS) has recently been expanded by JCOMM to include five new areas in the Arctic.
Two different bipartisan teams in the Senate are pushing for different overhauls of the drug safety system.
The EU test results will be fed into the 27-nation bloc's rapid alert system for food safety.
Trash cans and recycling bins are being removed from certain areas of Washington's Metro subway system as a safety precaution.
The last significant amendment was made in 1988 to replace Morse code with the Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS).
The vehicle has a built-in safety system that uses lasers and three-dimensional models of its surroundings to navigate obstacle-strewn warehouses.
In Costa Rica, the system is a safety risk, the government says.
Continental, a German tyre company, expects to have tyres equipped with the piezoelectric safety system on the road within a few years.
If said player gets dangerously close to colliding with an object, the safety system would signal an audible warning alert and pause the game.
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Flash back five months: I'm at a test track at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan, in a Lexus fitted with a pre-crash safety system.
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Now UPS is testing a technology designed to close that gap and, possibly, bring sweeping new efficiencies to the entire air traffic control system without compromising safety.
The priority must be to have a can-do attitude and a national culture of safety instead of the fragmented industry where every company is able to interpret its own safety system.
This type of passive safety system may sound simple.
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Whereas the FRA says that the new safety system will apply to only 65, 000 miles (out of a total of over 140, 000), the industry reckons it will cover more than half the network.
Whether improving system efficiency and safety or designing a vehicle that is more informative or fun, TI helps customers achieve their quality, reliability and cost goals and succeed in today's competitive automotive marketplace.
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Those choosing the Advance Package also get ventilated front seats and a blind-spot warning system for added safety while changing lanes on the highway, which is a feature we think should be standard across the line.
At the last fraction of a second, when the car's radar sensors and microprocessors have determined that the idiot at the wheel really isn't going to steer around the obstacle, the safety system shoots into action.
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If anything, this most recent outbreak in Europe points to how strong our own food-safety system is, and not just because the nationwide reach and capabilities of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control is unmatched elsewhere in the world.
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In response to the other concerns raised in the report, it said it had introduced a "quality and safety system" into mental health services which closely monitors the standards of care on wards, including nutrition infection control and training and education, among others.
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But the overall air system's safety is built on redundancy, and taking away the controller's extra set of eyes is like removing stop signs or traffic lights from city intersections and forcing drivers to be more vigilant and cautious, says Paul Rinaldi, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
By pressing the issue, Merck aroused all the drug safety concerns it had previously raised by withdrawing Vioxx, just as Congress is starting to talk about reforming the drug safety system at the FDA. The Arcoxia decision has probably made it more difficult for any new pain drug to be approved.
It's fairly safe to say that Continental Automotive Systems isn't the only company out there conjuring up an in-car safety system to alert motorists of impending hazards, and while a certain sect (we jest, we jest) would likely ignore whatever great advice it's sure to give, we can still admire the effort here.
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Some other mass-market brands also have their equivalent, like the Toyota Safety Connect system.
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Correspondents say some people have called into question Pakistan's system of regulating air safety.
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