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• s  affecting an entire system
  a systemic poison

• In order to reclaim our birthright, we Americans must resolve to repair the systemic decay of the public forum.
• The new vigilance leads to other risky products being identified, but officials suggest the problems aren't systemic just the work of a few bad eggs.
• Also, what's so hard about defining systemic risk? It's any activity which creates singular or domino-effect fail points in the financial system.

News & Articles

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• Gillibrand loses bid to strip military sex assault cases from chain of command
  The Senate’s staunchest advocate for transferring military rape cases to independent prosecutors to contain a rape epidemic in the ranks said Wednesday she was distressed by the rejection of her proposal, saying, "The victims’ voices aren’t being heard."“To reverse this crisis, I do not believe it will be enough if we do not seize the opportunity and embrace the kind of systemic reform that will ...
  June 13, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Your Next Business Challenge: Solve a Problem Shared by Many
  People get jobs by solving someone?s problem. People build businesses with systemic ways to solve a problem shared by many others. Just knowing about a problem is not enough. You have to fix it. And, if you can build a repeatable way to fix it, then you can build a business.
  June 12, 2013 - Forbes
• Teva and Active Biotech Report Positive Results from Phase IIa Study of Laquinimod in Active Lupus Nephritis
  Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Active Biotech announced today the results of a Phase IIa study of oral laquinimod designed to assess safety, tolerability and clinical efficacy in patients with active lupus nephritis, one of the most serious manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus that can lead to chronic kidney failure1.
  June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in Los Angeles Times
  There apparently was a "mix of human and systemic failures that contributed to this potential catastrophic breach of security," Obama said. "We need to learn from this episode and act quickly to fix the flaws in our system."
• Henry Paulson in Insurance News Net (press release)
  I agree with the FDIC and the Federal Reserve that a failure of Wachovia would have posed a systemic risk,Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in a statement. "The FDIC"s actions help to mitigate potential systemic risk to our financial...