Late last year, with a balloon payment on the bonds looming and its endowment's value down by more than 20percentt, Family Service had reached what Mr. Rucker called "a very important and undesirable decision point" to lay off staff members and discontinue some programs or reduce all programs across the board.
You may find your lawyer's assessment inconvenient, but while ethics and law do not always coincide — there are unjust laws; there are situations the law ignores — ethics is not a sort of appeals court you can go to if the law gives you an undesirable decision.
But they also knew that the storm was unlikely to make landfall as a hurricane — leaving them with some very undesirable decisions to make about how to warn the public about what was on the way, according to a report released by the center on Tuesday.
However, the probability models in mTPI are overly sharpened by the Ockham's razor, which, while in general helps with parsimonious statistical inference, leads to undesirable decisions from safety perspective.
The discussion primarily concerns differences between discount rates and benefit rates that can result in undesirable decisions.
Nonetheless, amongst patients presented with the same choice options with similar risks, one would expect some degree of correlation between the values that individuals attach to the desirable and undesirable consequences of a decision such as taking medication and the likelihood that they would decide to take the medication.
A group of 20 anti-monarchist protesters, campaigners and environmentalists will claim at the High Court that police made a political decision to clear "undesirable" groups from London's streets while the world watched Prince William marry Kate Middleton.
We show that our proposed method is capable of establishing a benchmark with lower undesirable outputs for an inefficient decision making unit (DMU) than other models in the existing literature.
"In the selection decision for an undesirable job, decision makers were more likely to choose the unattractive individual over the attractive individual.
Richards saw Janeway troubled by her difficult decision between two undesirable options and how "she must live with the choice.
Discussing the topic of prescription of antibiotics for sore throat, the same GP argued that it was not appropriate, and even undesirable, to share information for decision making with the patient about this topic because while there may be limited benefit for some individuals, the adverse social consequences of using antibiotics were too great (Table 1 2).
