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Risk management
Risk Management Risk management is a systematic process of identifying and assessing company risks and taking actions to protect a company against them. The task of the risk manager is to predict and enact measures to control or prevent losses within a company. The risk-management process involves... Read more |
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Mistake
MISTAKE The criminal law exists to prevent various kinds of harm, and those who violate its prohibitions are usually culpable because conduct that risks or causes harm is generally culpable conduct. For various reasons, however, a wedge can be driven between culpability and the causing or... Read more |
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High-Risk Pregnancy
High-risk pregnancy Definition Although as of 2004 there was no formal or universally accepted definition of a "high-risk" pregnancy, it is generally thought of as one in which the mother or the developing fetus has a condition that places one or both of them at a... Read more |
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Risk
Risk Risk is the potential for harm. Although the concept of risk Read more |
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Risk assessment
Risk analysis Risk is the chance that something undesirable will happen. Everyone faces personal risks daily; we all have a chance of being struck by a car or by lightning or of catching a cold. None of these are certain to happen today, but they all can and do happen occasionally, some more... Read more |
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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
YOUTH RISK BEHAVIOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is a social epidemiologic surveillance system established by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in order to monitor health-risk behaviors among high school students, evaluate the... Read more |
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underwriter
underwriter, an insurer of ships and cargoes from loss and damage, the name coming from the insurer writing his name under the policy of insurance. The request for insurance is termed the offering of a ‘risk’, and in marine insurance the word risk is equivalent to the liability of the... Read more |
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Aneurysmectomy
Aortic aneurysm repair Definition Aortic aneurysm repair involves the removal of a dilated (enlarged) portion of the aorta replaced by a woven or knitted Dacron graft to continue uninterrupted blood flow through the aorta and all branch vessels. Purpose Aortic aneurysm... Read more |
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Genetic counseling
Genetic Counseling Definition Genetic counseling aims to facilitate the exchange of information regarding a person's genetic legacy. It attempts to: accurately diagnose a disorder assess the risk of recurrence in the concerned family members and their relatives provide alternatives for... Read more |
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Maternal mortality
M ORTALITY, C HILDBIRTH Until the late twentieth century, and then only in developed countries, the mortality risks associated with childbearing were substantial. Although there are risks to infants, the following entry focuses on the mortality risks faced by... Read more |
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Manufacturing bearing up, but further rate rises would place economy in...
...be hit hard by a flood of cheap imports from Asia...currencies devalued even cheaper. Mr Gold's appeal...are going to see a flood of goods from South...recession was now at risk, said: "I hear all the technical reasons for ... |
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Properties At Risk Of Flooding - Flood Risk Searches.
...commercial properties at risk of damage from flood water. In June...water flooding. Flood risk may be of both...for the following reasons: The effect on...be disrupted. A flood search will assess...commercial sites. The ... |
 "The Herald News - Joliet (IL)")
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HIGH-RISK FLOOD INSURANCE
...sense to the federal flood insurance program...policy. There is a reason it is prohibitively...stepped in and made it cheaper to build homes and...developments in these high-risk areas. James Witt...subsidized federal flood insurance ... |
 "The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)")
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The Baltimore Sun Jay Hancock column: Legislators can't outlaw nature, risk...
...the path of future floods and hurricanes have...pricing present risks would soon be bankrupt...There are two reasons for government to...insurance and other risk pools. One is social...business with very cheap policies in the...were built ... |
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Opposition by residents leads council to shelve Clontarf flood defence plans
PLANS FOR flood defences of up to 2...including that the proposed flood barrier was a "cheap and nasty solution...would provide effective flood defences for the at- risk area in Clontarf...public. "For these reasons and given ... |
 "Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME)")
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Why should everybody have to subsidize risky home sites? ; Helping people who...
...danger from recurring flood damage? In a word...established the National Flood Insurance Program...Of course, the reason private insurance...of the seasons, floods are inevitable in...property owners, the risk assumed by the ... |
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Ending flood coverage a gamble for Sacramento, Calif.-area homeowners.
...choose to drop their flood insurance, together...could fail, say flood engineers, and cause...been through four floods in 50 years. "This...nearly two decades of flood-control upgrades...could convert to cheaper policies. Once their...known ... |
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Days of cheap home insurance numbered; PERSONAL FINANCE.(News)
...homes against a risk of flooding in an...premiums for each risk quoted in the Index...since last year's floods. "The days of cheap home insurance deals...which considers risks of sudden flooding...dealt with 180,000 flood ... |
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Corps should listen to reason
...agency adding to the flood risk by its management...Missouri River. Flood waters were still...to the voices of reason, such as this insight...the city manager of flood-weary Craig, Mo...a flood is a lot ... |
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Plan for flood wall at St. Paul airport hits its crest; The City Council soon...
...commission says it risks losing federal...that building the flood wall is money...it would be cheaper for taxpayers to pay for seven more floods in the next 80...it out of the flood plain, then what...commission says that ... |
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