Following the FDA's move, France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden have taken precautionary action to limit the use of BPA.
Another Great Depression was avoided, but the Great Recession could have been eased, and perhaps even avoided, if officials like Mr. Bernanke had taken precautionary action.
And while the fledgling field of online psychiatry has yet to yield any documented disasters, some Web sites have taken precautionary steps to prevent crises like suicides.
Part of the answer is that people who should have been alert to the dangers, and taken precautionary measures, instead blithely assured Americans that everything was fine, and even encouraged them to take out risky mortgages.
"The Dallas police department received an anonymous threat against law enforcement across the city and has taken precautionary measures to heightened security," according to a written statement from police.
In part, he acknowledges, that's because he has been through economic hard times before as the proprietor of three other longtime Hudson Valley restaurants, and has taken precautionary steps.
