Health Concern has defied the political obituary writers before, but this time it is fighting for survival at county level.

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For survival, it is useful to estimate the level of the risks they are supposed to manage at close to, but not quite, zero.

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The new age telco announced a survival plan sale of its wholesale ISP business to Level 3 Communications (nasdaq: LVLT - news - people ).

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