They, and the regulators, may believe that a fund manager or a bank is pursuing a prudent strategy when in fact the policy is highly risky.The second lesson of the 1987 crash relates to portfolio insurance, a practice pursued by many institutional investors at the time.
That practice — pursued for more than a century, and today recognized by scientists as a really dumb idea — allowed younger trees and underbrush to flourish in many places, increasing the density of flammable material and thus exposing forests to fires hotter and more intense than they had evolved in response to.
This challenges Washington to do something at which it is badly out of practice: pursue genuine diplomacy with important regional states, based on real give and take and mutual accommodation of core interests.
The initial mean overall PCMH-A score for the 15 practices that achieved NCQA PCMH recognition was 1 point higher (7.9 vs 6.9) than that of practices pursuing NCQA PCMH recognition as of October 2011 (n = 29), and 0.7 points higher (7.9 vs 7.2) than the mean score of practices not pursuing NCQA recognition (n = 21).
We examined PCMH-A scores from March 2010 to September 2012 for practices receiving NCQA PPC-PCMH recognition before October 1, 2011 (approximately one quarter of the practices) to scores for practices pursuing recognition (as reflected by having purchased an application license as of the same date) or not pursuing NCQA PCMH recognition.
Contrary to these initiatives that highlight the best practices pursued by shippers, the empirical research demonstrates that environmental factor is comparatively given less importance by shippers when selecting a transport service.
Besides the application of good environmental practices pursued by the IPPC Directive, an optimal methodological solution for each industrial site has to be applied in order to minimize the discharge and produce an alternative water source at the same time.
This paper presents a longitudinal field study where management accounting practices pursued under the banner of category management operated to dissemble a variety of self-interested actions and trust was deployed largely as a discursive resource which ultimately resulted in distrust and cynicism.
Los Angeles County prosecutors, however, outlined business practices pursued by rave companies that they said were illegal, came at the expense of public health and safety, and defrauded taxpayers of millions of dollars.
Some day these misconceived policies will be recognized as the educational equivalent of practices pursued by civic authorities the 1950s and 1960s to remake entire neighborhoods in the name of "urban renewal" and "slum clearance".
