The government reports hundreds of millions in losses every year, although the government appeared to do a better job at averting mistakes this year — it reported just $10 million in accidental losses in the past year, as opposed to nearly $60 million the year prior.
In the meantime, families need to be the sentinels, watching out for medical care, asking questions and frankly, helping to avert medical mistakes with our aging loved ones.
The study showed that some industrial chemicals that were rare in the environment were absorbed more readily by the body than similar ones that were more common, providing clues that could avert mistaken regulatory crackdowns on the wrong compound, the scientists said.
It is not too late to avert a third mistake through a major interagency effort, pushed by both the administration and Congress, and better international coordination.
The measure approved today is intended to avert the kinds of mistakes and confusion that compromised the federal government's investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center, Congressional officials said.
Perhaps most striking, it was not until recently, intelligence officials acknowledged on Friday, that the C.I.A. adopted changes designed to avert a repeat of the mistakes of the Iraq experience.
Perhaps most important, media companies are learning from the music industry's mistakes and trying to avert broader adoption of piracy techniques.
The passive voice that allows a politician to avert the embarrassment of having to say "I goofed" is the classic "Mistakes were made".
We need to learn from the mistakes of the past and act now if we are to avert a repeat.
While he acknowledged making mistakes during his term as finance minister, Mr. Papaconstantinou said the government's actions had helped to avert a worse fate.
