But the operation poses a greater risk for children and adolescents who have not finished growing because it involves drilling into a growth plate, an area of still-developing tissue at the end of the leg bone.
"Zero Dark Thirty" operates on several levels, and it functions against itself: even as the movie stokes excitement for the hunt for bin Laden, it stands outside the mission and — without actually posing questions about the operation — poses the mission itself as a question, by way of canny and conspicuous omissions in content, strategies in representation, and control of tone.
Almost no one objects to operating on a healthy, consenting adult to obtain a kidney that might save an ailing sibling, even though the operation poses some risk of serious harm to the donor and offers no potential for clinical benefit.
Any operation poses risks, but surprisingly few studies have focused on older patients and cosmetic enhancements.
Basically, German believes that whether the undercover operation poses significant new civil liberties concerns depends on two things: the severity of the alleged crime and how many people were duped.
The operation of real temperature scanning reactors is confronted by the practical realities of dealing with hardware limitations, uncertainties in calibration, signal noise and other such difficulties which, in this type of operation, pose very different problems from those encountered in conventional kinetic experiments.
F.B.I. agents set up a sting operation, posing as bank officials, to meet with the Venezuelan.
All this represents yet another paradox of our financial world: Even as our regulators try to devise a safer financial system, our trade representatives thwart efforts to reduce risks these operations pose to taxpayers.
But a lawsuit filed by Hornbeck Offshore Services of Covington, La., claims the government arbitrarily imposed the moratorium without any proof that the operations posed a threat.
They argued that their larger scale of operation posed greater risks, compared to independent pharmacies, should they be found to violate 2006 regulations, which prevent sales of tinctures in bottles larger than 25 ml.
