Diverted attention

When used judiciously, the advantages of QRA can outweigh the associated problems and costs. Companies that prudently commission QRAs and conscientiously act on the resulting recommendations are better off for two reasons (1) they have a better base of information to make decisions and (2) their judicious use of QRA technology represents another demonstration of responsible concern for the health and safety of workers and the public. However, companies should resist the indiscriminate use of QRA as a means to solve all problems since this strategy could waste safety improvement resources, diverting attention from other essential safety activities. Once executives are able to interpret and use QRA results, they will appreciate that the quality of their decisions rests largely on their ability to understand the salient analysis assumptions and the limitations of the results. 

It would probably be possible to line up some support for each of these views, but this would risk diverting attention from the fundamental fact that scarcity will always be with us that the needs and demands for... 

Finally, prompt steps are needed to alter some of the provisions of the Toxic Substances Control Act which divert attention from the main problems at hand and can only lead to long and... 

So what Where s the harm in overregulation of chemicals (1) No, or tiny at best, health gain can be expected from regulations. (2) The focus on environmental carcinogens diverts attention from research that is likely to make a difference in health. 

Even if, for the sake of argument, Attaran had succeeded in showing that patents pose no serious barriers of access to existing medications, his final conclusion that activists should divert attention away from the issue of IPR is misplaced. Attaran (and... 

Generally speaking, the use of toxins as research tools is technically straightforward. One merely adds activated toxin to the cells of interest, then waits an appropriate length of time for the toxin to exert its effects. However, the technical ease of using toxins should not divert attention from the fact that materials must be handled in a way that does not pose a hazard to laboratory workers or to others in the vicinity. Fortunately, the safeguards that are needed to ensure the health and welfare of everyone can be implemented in a way that poses relatively little burden on investigators. 

All of the questions of efficacy are important from two perspectives. Such approaches divert attention from the main problems. Also, many medications are very expensive, so the benefit should be clearly documented if the cost is to be justified. 

Does the child try to cheer everybody up, divert attention, or attempt to figure out and fix the parental problem Does the child act as mediator in parental conflicts ... 

The clean car initiative diverted attention from one of the most important developments in automotive history. In the last few decades the... 

An important conclusion from all these studies is that the mechanisms of interaction are specifically related to the structure of the xenobiotic, and that exclusive concentration of effort on neutral hydrophobic compounds may divert attention from important principles that are relevant to groups of structurally different compounds. 

Quite a large quantity of information on this subject is given in the patent literature, and the need to support the patent claims has partially diverted attention away from the performance of the basic research on the systems. 

The smoothing procedure of Denbigh and Vickery diverts attention from a feature which occurs irregularly among different families of compounds the refractivities of CH2 groups (i.e. the values of b above) sometimes alternate as methylenes are inserted to extend the lengths of... 

The simplicity of the chemical methods for estimating ascorbic acid has diverted attention from the several physical methods available for measuring ascorbic acid. For certain applications these methods can be useful. 

Adolf Leschnitzer, a Jewish historian of German origin, draws a close parallel between the persecution of Jews and of witches. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he writes, persecution of Jews was replaced by persecution of witches. Then the process was reversed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the late Middle Ages persecution of Jews can already be shown to have been staged as a device to divert attention. .. When, after the great persecutions, massacres, and expulsions from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century,... witches and sorcerers became the new subjects of persecution. With the disappearance of the Jews, they took their place as the desperately needed new outlet for emotional release. ... 

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