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contingency

n. an event that might not occur.

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Keywords: Contingency Analysis, Performance Indices, Load flow Analysis, Fault Tansient Analysis, System Stability Analysis
IMPACT OF EHV TRANSMISSION LINE ON SYSTEM STABILTY AND REDUCED CONTINGENCY IN POWER SYSTEM
Greece argues that its laws do not allow it to pass contingency laws and offered to legislate an automatic mechanism for across-the-board spending cuts if it falls short of goals.
Lenders, Greece close to agree reforms, contingency steps need more work-EU
3.2 The model of Guarantee Mechanism of Contingency Resource
A novel scheme for improving quality of service of live streaming
In our view, the unmet legal need identified by the LAW Survey is unlikely to be addressed by allowing lawyers to enter contingency fee agreements.
Contingency fees and access to justice in Australia
Historically, large scale contingency operations have been primarily funded through supplemental spending bills outside the federal budget.
Resourcing the current fight
In addition to these strategic elements, a number of other characteristics are unique, collectively, to a crisis contingency.
The new normalcy: sea power and contingency operations in the twenty-first century
(c) If there is only a remote possibility of loss, the entity does not accrue or disclose the loss contingency (unless the contingency is with respect to guarantees).
Accounting for contingencies: disclosure of future business risks
The small vertical traces along the line of cumulative wins mark the rounds in which the experimenters intervened on the "savings" deposit; the contingency changes are signaled by the line that vertically divides the figure.
Efectos de las consecuencias sobre los patrones de contingencias entrelazadas: una duplicacion de un experimento metacontingencial
A decade ago, one state supreme court eloquently catalogued the harmful effects contingency fee arrangements have on tax administration.
TEI policy statement on contingency fee audit arrangements
Key issues include changes in how corporate auditors and legal counsel interact, protection of privileged communications, potential impacts on the ABA Treaty, and managing an array of corporate risks and challenges of more detailed litigation loss contingency reporting and disclosure.
John R. Formica, Jr., Partner, PwC to Speak at KC's 2011 Loss Contingency Disclosure Demystified
First, contingency contracting is much broader in scope than Major Theater War (MTW).
The misperception of contingency contracting
A contingency recruiter traditionally will have more failures than successes, but it's the successes and the exhilaration of those successes that keeps a contingency recruiter in the business.
Question: why do contingency recruiters charge what they charge?

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