Word: risks
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Many hospitals are so concerned with cutting down on preventable errors, though, that they are ignoring the risk of malpractice claims and doggedly rooting out their mistakes. Even in the hours before Ben Kolb died, for example, Martin Memorial hospital's risk-management director Doni Haas had launched an investigation, sealing off the operating room and seizing the syringes, instruments and medications used in the procedure. She could do this without being obstructed, she says, because the hospital staff was focused on finding the cause of the problem and preventing such a thing from happening again...
...considering all these things--the risk of losing your job one way minus the risk of losing it another, the extra money you make if your industry is shielded from foreign competition minus the extra money you pay for goods and services that are protected--that you reach the conclusion that on average, free trade benefits us all. Yes, there are various economic theories about circumstances in which all this may not be true, but their authors win prizes precisely because the circumstances are unusual. In general, the numbers work irrespective of what policies other countries follow. They just...
These men are shining examples of service-minded individuals who are willing to risk their lives not only for their fire-fighting brethren, but also for complete unknowns who merely may have been in the building. Although their heroism resulted in the loss of their own lives, they should be exalted and remembered for their sense of duty and commitment to their jobs of protection and preservation of life...
This past Monday morning, the most recent report to the University-wide committee met with good results; the contingency planning process in each school and central area had been reviewed by the University's Risk...
...light of the incredible possibility that the project holds, there is every reason to press onward. As for the danger of posting the sequences on the Web, such a risk is infinitely preferable to the danger of keeping such vital information as some sort of government secret...