So far, though, according to the G.A.O., no government entity has taken the lead to assure a supply, and the utilities, having seen no problem so far, do not appear concerned.
By comparison, clinical appraisal and revalidation of doctors in the NHS is a summative process with formative elements, that is professionally supported but peer lead, to assure the quality of an individual's practice, and potentially with referral for withdrawal of professional license where this fails [ 72].
The infant baboon, established as a metabolic model for a child ingesting lead, will be used to determine the adequacy of present as well as recently recommended limitations for lead in paint to assure protection from this potential source of lead exposure.
For starters, Packer says, a pecking order would lead to "mutually assured destruction" from the animals' massive claws and teeth.
In the patent ecosystem, firms may be reluctant to sue or may reach efficient accommodations with other firms that possess IP because of the threat of countersuit -- which could lead to mutually assured destruction.
And it was Nitze who had frequently led the charge to assure that Washington kept adding to its arsenal.
At a meeting with officials from United Russia, the pro-Kremlin party that he leads, Mr. Medvedev was careful to assure his audience that he did not approve of the women's performance of an anti-Kremlin song at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, saying that even thinking about it made him nauseated.
The sessions will be held weekly in a common area of the intervention apartment buildings and will be implemented by paramedics from the local paramedic service who have undergone a structured training programme (3 4 h of online, interactive training modules, including case studies and the observation of an intervention session led by another paramedic) to assure intervention fidelity.
The decision sent both banks into a scramble, and led competitors, including the Blackstone Group, to assure investors that their commercial mortgage-backed securities would be unaffected.
Floyd Abrams, a constitutional lawyer with Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, said it was odd that "the increased availability of a means of communication leads to a ruling seeking to assure that less is said".
The Americans wound up winning the first three best-ball matches to assure themselves the lead going into the final day.
