In the 1920s, a young economist named Frank Knight, who taught at the University of Chicago for 40 years, codified a kind of risk that he called uncertainty.
Fair Isaac Corp. evaluates a different kind of risk: the risk that a credit card or mortgage borrower will stiff the lender.
It takes a particular kind of person to risk his life on a daily basis, facing incredible dangers at almost every turn.
He left the defense industry, and went on to invent the Mylar balloon, an improved version of Liquid Paper, and Kinepak, a kind of explosive that reduces the risk of accidental detonation.
Today, any company thinking of producing a new kind of digital device must seriously consider the risk that such a product's functionality can be matched by smartphone-resident apps and a potential accessory (a lesson more recently learned by mobile e-mail appliance maker Peek, which has refocused its business on software and cloud services for other handsets).
Your driving history is seen as a predictor of what kind of risk you pose to the insurer.
That could make the medicine, the first of its kind, indispensable to patients with a high risk of a heart attack.
Many hoped that the giant clinical trial--the biggest of its kind--could help settle whether these drugs run a risk of causing heart problems.
Such conversations run the risk of inspiring a corrosive kind of jealousy, she says.
Ultimately, governments will probably need to provide a safety net of some kind for those at high risk.
They will gain a reputation as the kind of person who can handle risk, and they will believe their own publicity.
While it is the duty of ratings agencies to assess investment risk and provide a clear playing field for investors of every kind, we all know that they have done just the opposite.
To a particular kind of hyper-ambitious young person, entering into a domestic commitment too early carries a risk: what if you end up yoked to somebody who lacks the stamina to keep up?
The kind of details the paramedic and fire-fighters will give out include the work involved in cutting someone free from a wrecked car, the risk of a vehicle bursting into flames with people trapped inside and the kind of injuries sustained by different parts of the body in a crash.
Don't we run the risk of this becoming a personal kind of thing with this crisis?
Comedies tend not to perform that well internationally so no one wants to risk a big budget on that kind of a film.
Others, like Madison, will continue to run the risk of a criminal record as a kind of initiation ritual into American adulthood.
The early adopter types that would be likely to specify their own defaults are also the kind most a risk for leaving the platform in search of more control of their experience, anyway.
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Few FDMs want to take that kind of risk or tie up their capital by guaranteeing a forex IB.
When that bell rings, it takes a special kind of courage to answer the call and rush, at great risk to yourself, to help your fellow citizens.
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"For a time, capital markets seemed to have an appetite for almost any kind of risk, so long as it received sufficiently large yield in exchange, " they write.
Children born underweight have a substantial risk of central obesity (big stomachs, the worst kind of fat) as adults, while children born too big risk greater overall fatness as adults.
After six years in nursing, unsatisfied with the career choice I had made, I woke up to a different kind of fear: The fear of becoming like the other no-risk nurses tired, burned out and old before their time.
For a man who can talk for hours about changing how people can drive, that kind of risk-taking panache is what may be needed to shake up the personal vehicle industry.
This is also to provide a kind of "conceptual umbrella" to underline and boost the awareness that new discoveries often entail this risk of discrimination or stigmatization.
Today your local bank might be interested in lending to a start-up business but tomorrow it will be less inclined because carrying that kind of loan increases its risk.
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O'Neal basically said yesterday when he was talking to investors that the company had done a bad job of risk analysis, which, outside of Wall Street means, you know, they kind of got in over their heads.
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