When armed with a novel clinical experience this can be one of the most exciting places on earth for a doctor to conduct a game of medical detective.
In 1990, shortly before Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Central Command conducted a war game that evaluated the ability to repel an attack by Iraq.
When Booz Allen Hamilton, the consulting firm, conducted a war game last October in which two dirty bombs were detected after going through American ports and a third exploded in downtown Chicago, it estimated that the total cost to the economy of closing ports for 12 days and dealing with a 20-day emergency would be $58 billion.
In the fall of 1983, NATO conducted a "war game" in Western Europe called "Able Archer," as it did pretty much every autumn.
In 1999 the same military command that was preparing to attack Iraq conducted a detailed war game that found that toppling Mr. Hussein risked creating a major security void, said Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, who headed the command.
The study was conducted on a game ranch where the density of the indigenous population of impalas had been initially set high through introduction of animals to meet harvesting objectives.
Two post-invasion articles also identified emerging concerns: in one, Fallows enumerated the opportunity costs of the Iraq war (diversion of resources, loss of diplomatic good will); in another, he convened a panel to conduct a war game on the military options (they found no appealing ones) for dealing with Iran's nuclear program.
NBC, in its 12th season of televising Irish home games, conducted a conference call today to draw attention to Saturday's telecast.
At The New York Times's request, David Smith, the founder of Retrosheet, a nonprofit group that compiles historical records of baseball games, conducted a study of batters' hot streaks since the advent of the designated hitter in 1973.
Domestic scholars Yang (2007), Chang and Wang (2008), and Wan (2008) studied the risks that banks and other financial institutions are facing in SCF mode including credit risk, operational risks, etc. Wan (2008) conducted an extensive-form game model to illustrate that the risk avoidance mechanism of SCF is likely to fail.
