Word: hazard
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...health crisis efforts of today and those of ten years ago. “Every school of public health now has a center for public health preparedness. Federal authorities came to realize after 9/11 that there was not enough attention against the threat of what they call an all-hazard approach,” he says, referring to biological warfare. These centers, funded by the CDC, have “grown considerably” in recent years, says Koh. Both he and Rosenthal mention an incident support team, consisting of “all the major areas of the university...
...assume for a moment that a high BMI score is a health hazard. What then? What advice should health authorities give to the more than 1.3 billion people in the world who would supposedly benefit from losing weight? The standard tip has been to eat less and move more, which presupposes that people eat more and move less than they did a generation ago. A typical media portrayal of today's child is of a fatso slumped in front of a video game, guzzling soft drink and not faintly inclined to venture outside to kick a ball or climb...
...What was happening behind that impenetrable cordon of destruction reached Beirut mainly as rumors. Even reaching the area just north of the Litani was fraught with hazard. Leaflets dropped on Beirut by Israeli aircraft on Monday morning warned Lebanese to avoid traveling along the roads north of Sidon, the seaport midway between Beirut and Tyre. That necessitated an arduous and time-consuming detour high up in the cloud-smothered Chouf mountains, complicated Monday by the choking line of northbound vehicles carrying tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the violence further south...
...action between Cannes '05, when Caché, A History of Violence, Sin City, Once You're Born and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada lent their luster to a generally strong slate, and Cannes '07, when the world's largest film festival will turn 60. That's an occupational hazard of Cannes regulars, who tend to think that last year was always better, and next year will be the best. Perhaps that feeling is not unique to film critics. For most people, the past is golden, the future rosy. And the present? Ask us next year...
...chain. This winter he took his top managers away to Thailand for a management-strategy retreat. One of its conclusions: his firm, Malachite, will need to hire about 3,000 new staff and should consider creating its own training school. All these entrepreneurs say that official corruption is a hazard of doing business in Russia that they have more or less learned to navigate. Euroset co-founder Artemiev says that the firm tries to lease stores wherever possible rather than build or buy its own, in order to avoid hassles with permits. "We try to outsource our problems with bureaucracy...