Presidents since Franklin Roosevelt, in Unger's view, have inflated external threats in order to build up a vast and unaccountable national security machine that runs roughshod over the framers' design for a modest government with plenty of internal checks and few international obligations.
The importance of internal checks as well as interlaboratory comparisons becomes all the more apparent when one realizes that geochronology laboratories are limited in number.
"The system of internal checks and balances is more than what is written on paper," said Alfred Koeppe, a co-chairman of the nine-member group that was commissioned by the Rutgers president, Richard L. McCormick.
Interviews with more than a dozen families and travel experts also seem to suggest that regardless of the final choices, a new set of internal checks and balances has emerged.
Its diagnostic programs run thousands of internal checks per second, searching for system errors and anomalies, monitoring its engine and brakes, and continually recalculating its route and lane position.
When it comes to keeping the bank's traders on a leash, about the best that can be expected is that the person, or people, in charge set up a proper system of internal checks and controls, including strict limits on leverage, meaningful risk guidelines, and accurate valuation metrics.
Board President Joanne Gilbert said the project turned into a "horribly inappropriate assignment" due to a lack of internal checks and balances.
Further, BJS designed its youth surveys with a number of internal checks and controls to identify and exclude youths whose interview responses suggested either a lack of sincerity or a lack of understanding of the questions.
Producing a health needs assessment tool involves a qualitative review of professional and patient opinion and all available health service information and a variety of internal checks to achieve validity and reliability.
Sampling from �� = 0 to β = β max and from β = β max to β = 0 gives two different curves for the logarithm Bayes factor, which we used as an internal check of the reliability of the method (not shown).
