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The serious scientists involved in this research all stress that these techniques are entirely untested.
Inside were 11,341 abandoned, untested rape kits.
In 2015, the Obama White House and the US Department of Justice put the number of untested, abandoned rape kits at 400,000, across this country.
To address these issues, women have been sold flawed medication, testosterone creams ... even untested genital injections.
I find that the best results in life are often held back by false constructs and untested assumptions.
It is continually brought into question as untested, untestable, and possibly dead wrong.
So Dr. Houseman does what any intelligent scientist would do and injects the untested serum into his own veins.
In their boss Briggs (Paul Haskin) office, we know it's a Feds office because there's a big table, swivel chair and an American flag, he tells agent Phillips (John Amplas) to spray the whole area with an experimental, untested, toxic, chemical herbicide called Dromax.
Having misdiagnosed the ailment, policymakers have prescribed untested experimental medicine with potentially grave side effects.
Untested medicine is being used to treat the wrong ailment – and the chronically ill patient continues to be neglected.
The attempt to ensure that the losses are not recognized might tempt the Fed to rely excessively on untested, uncertain, and costly monetary-policy tools – like paying high interest rates on reserves to induce banks not to lend.
Economists who become policy advisors are great fans of simplicity, uniformity, and arm's-length relations between government and the private sector, not because of economic theory or empirical evidence, but because of unexamined and untested assumptions.
But experience has shown that bondholders are not inclined to subordinate their claims to some untested international bankruptcy court.
Circumventing that process and promoting new, untested ideas to the general public is unprofessional.
Investors worry about the longer-term consequences of political dysfunction, another year of European economic contraction, disastrously high unemployment, unprecedented – and thus untested – central bank policies, and increasing global tensions.
More fundamentally, its promise of decentralized transactions with no intermediary authority amounts to an untested, Utopian pipedream.
In fact, China treats Pakistan as something of a guinea pig, selling the country weapons systems not deployed by the Chinese military and outdated or untested nuclear reactors.
Untested – and ultimately incorrect – assumptions created a policymaking environment defined by what can only be called hubris.
But another Fed faction – led by Governors Jeremy Stein and Daniel Tarullo – argues that macro-prudential tools are untested, and that limiting leverage in one part of the financial market simply drives liquidity elsewhere.
To forge such a coalition, the M5S would have to adopt a responsible and clearly defined economic program, and the Democrats would have to accept being the junior partner of an untested insurgent force.
May is apparently willing to gamble her own country’s future on an alliance with an unpopular, untested, and mendacious American president.
As much as Iraq’s Sunnis fear for their future, the Shia majority, now overseeing the untested proposition of a Shia-led Arab state, also have reasons to be fearful.
The radicals relied on Keynes’s untested theory that unemployment depended on “effective demand” in relation to the “money wage,” but their policy ignored the part about wages and sought to stabilize demand at a high enough level to ensure “full” employment.
By contrast, the Fed’s QE balance-sheet adjustments were unconventional and, therefore, untested from the start.
The BRICS’ “no strings” policy explicitly challenges the conditionality imposed on borrowers by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, though the policy remains untested.
As a result, unconventional – and untested – policies, such as so-called “quantitative easing,” have become the rage among central bankers.
But adverse global conditions, however troubling, should not lead central bankers to neglect the risks of untested policies – above all the “helicopter drops” that many are now proposing.
Existing reforms do not adequately mitigate this risk, largely because they depend on the authorities and the banks to complete a complex and untested repayment process within 48 hours of a bank’s collapse.
In the face of a housing crisis, it is plausible that lenders would again panic, deciding that they cannot depend on untested processes to stabilize the banks and withdrawing their overnight loans.
These ideas are largely untested, so much work would need to be done before they could be made operational.
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