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And by the way, all those precautions to keep the Norden bombsight out of the hands of the Nazis?
Cold and flu have a huge burden on our societies and on our own lives, but we don't really even take the most rudimentary precautions against it because we consider it normal to get cold and flu during cold and flu season.
Anthony James took good precautions.
This is when riders typically experience seat separation, and, without the proper precautions, ejection.
After a while, I got a secret address and I had to take extra precautions to protect my family.
So in the fall of 2014, I was a sophomore in college and like most college students, I was sexually active, and I generally took precautions to minimize the risk that sex carries.
But no precautions and no precautionary principle can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee.
We need, similarly, information on what precautions to take when the air quality outside is poor, very poor, severe or hazardous.
This process requires extraordinary precautions.
Imagine a world where you have to wear a full biohazard suit to collect a floppy disk, then you just drop it in a ziploc bag and transfer it to your pocket with no precautions as soon as you get back to the office.
Bridges's drama about a reporter who discovers some flaws in the safety precautions taken at a nuclear powerplant is directed well and a pretty interesting film from the late 70s.
The safety precautions in the local nuclear power plant are substandard, to say the least (even Homer Simpson never was this nonchalant) and toxic waste seeps through to the nearby high school.
The detail work in showing the security precautions taken by the SS on behalf of the President and First Lady was likewise intriguing.
It's brown acid alerts, rain storm precautions, latrine maintenance, three days of peace and music and breakfast in bed for 400,000 with Merry Prankster Wavy Gravy as your stage host starring Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, CSN&Y, The Who, Santana, Sly & the Family Stone, Country Joe & the fish, 10 Years After, Sha Na Na, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie and John Sebstian.
They didn't have any safety precautions, no spare batteries for headlamps.
Precautions for the assassination of the President in 1963 were probably about on a par with what was disclosed in this story, but who would have thought to check the upper floors of the Book Depository building?
Metaphors can be useful as general precautions, but they become dangerous when they convey a sense of historical inexorableness.
A good economics in our own era would do three things: It would take precautions against 2008-level collapses; it would muster a robust counter-cyclical response to any collapse that does happen; and it would heed popular demands for economic fairness.
Salvation does not lie in better “risk management” by either regulators or banks, but, as Keynes believed, in taking adequate precautions against uncertainty.
Media-fed fears that the disease could spread to affluent countries led to extraordinary precautions.
Indeed, the International Energy Agency estimates that the additional precautions needed to ensure shale-gas wells’ environmental safety – including careful attention to seismic conditions, properly sealed shafts, and appropriate waste-water management – add only about 7% to the cost.
The dilemma is that playing it safe--by treating every flu-like illness with the precautions appropriate for SARS--would present an enormous logistical, operational and financial burden to health care systems.
And if elected officials have failed to take necessary precautions or demonstrated a sense of resignation, voters will let them know at the ballot box.
Nevertheless, none of these precautions can assuage the anxiety of China’s leaders about the struggle underway in Tibet, particularly in view of events in Kosovo and Taiwan.
That won’t be easy to do, but we could make a start by imposing a tax on factory-farm products until enough revenue is raised to pay for the precautions that governments now have to take against avian influenza.
Once diagnosed, C. auris patients need to be isolated; medical equipment must be thoroughly disinfected; and strict precautions need to be enforced for health-care workers.
We cannot skip what risk communicators call the “adjustment reaction” phase, during which we may become temporarily overanxious and hypervigilant, and may even take precautions that are technically unnecessary or premature.
In the developing world, swine flu (so far) is much less serious than many endemic health threats, and the main risk-communication goal should be to help people get through their adjustment reaction, take precautions that are feasible, and refocus on other priorities.
Second, to the extent that effective precautions require governmental action, the fact that government is a centralized system of control makes it difficult for officials to respond to the full spectrum of possible risks against which cost-justified measures might be taken.
Fourth, countries are poor often because of weak, inefficient, or corrupt government, characteristics that may disable them from taking cost-justified precautions.
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