The British financial authorities also had two drills in the past year, one of which examined the impact on a British clearing bank of the failure in London of a foreign banking subsidiary.This is progress of a sort, but the authorities' tests have been one-dimensional, excluding all protagonists from the private sector.
He said it would take a little longer for heat to be restored as the authority tests and installs temporary boilers.
Kenneth M. Mollins, a lawyer representing the Gardner family, said that he requested that the city authorities test Mrs. Gardner to see if she had been raped.
Distributors in Japan and West Germany have also ordered the withdrawal of millions of the familiar green bottles, in some cases as a precautionary measure, while the local health authorities test the carbonated water.
Similar controversy has erupted worldwide, as airport authorities test the devices in countries like Australia, Germany, Italy and the UK, although none have adopted the machines for widespread use.
In response to the horsemeat scandal, the FSA requested that local authorities test minced beef products and ready meals sold at shops, wholesalers and catering suppliers for horse and pig DNA above a 1% threshold.
If transgender athletes are now allowed to compete officially, and if gender testing has been shown frequently to render false results, then what exactly are the Chinese authorities testing for?
The purchase of the kits will, for the first time, allow widespread out-of-competition testing for the hormone and will allow the authorities to test all athletes participating in the Olympics this summer in Beijing.
The decision came after three recent incidents in which powdery substances were found on Northwest planes, prompting calls to the authorities to test for anthrax.
They had also built a mock-up of the bunker nearby, where the authorities could test various options while devising a rescue plan.
The 24 workers, all from the mailroom, were isolated from the rest of the building's employees while authorities tested the letter for traces of anthrax spores.
