Government drops risk assessment plan
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The Bush Administration is dropping its effort to standardize how government agencies develop risk assessments intended to protect the public or the environment.
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The government deferred on Thursday a decision on plans to sell stakes in engineering firm BHEL and carmaker Maruti Udyog Ltd, a move analysts saw as bowing to pressure from the government's communist allies.
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Government has abandoned plans for pre-9pm TV advertsing ban as part of its new anti-obesity strategy
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The British government, citing safety concerns, shuttered a drug plant yesterday that had been expected to produce nearly half of all US influenza shots this year, sending American health authorities scrambling to ensure that those in greatest danger from the flu -- the elderly and frail -- can get remaining vaccine supplies.
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Â· Provision of services has become inconsistentÂ· Vulnerability test breaches government's strategy
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The U.S. government has lowered the  terror threat level for the financial services sector in New  York City, northern New Jersey and Washington, the Department  of Homeland Security said on Wednesday.
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Gordon Brown's plan to reward teenagers with "good behaviour cards" has been dropped.
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NHS drugs advisers have reversed their decision to block a drug for people with asbestos-related cancer.
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The European Commission drops plans to stop firms considering gender when setting car insurance rates.
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Federal officials lowered the terrorist alert level on Wednesday for the financial services sector in Washington, New York and northern New Jersey, saying that financial
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Campaigners threaten the government with legal action after a probe into arms deals with Saudi Arabia is dropped.
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A federal drug safety adviser said Friday the government rescinded his invitation to participate in a February meeting on the risk of Vioxx and other arthritis drugs because he had already publicly expressed doubts about the medications.
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An expert panel of the nation's premier science advisory organization yesterday gave a failing grade to a federal risk analysis used to justify construction of a controversial high-security bioterror laboratory in inner-city Boston.
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Police checkpoints that have surrounded the Capitol since last August were gone Thursday following a postelection decision by authorities to lower the threat level.
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Big banks have pulled the plug on a Treasury Department-backed plan to rescue troubled investment vehicles leveled by the subprime mortgage crisis.
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We advise skepticism The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ditching a controversial data-mining program, the Associated Press revealed today.â¦
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The US government lowered the terrorism alert level for financial sites in New York City, Washington and northern New Jersey, because those buildings are now ``hardened,&#39;&#39; or sufficiently protected, an official said.