The brave new world of technology brings some all-too-common risks these days.
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For many Americans--and particularly for driven, young self-starters who never lived through the Depression and whose memories of the 1973 to 1974 crash are dim if present at all--taking hefty financial risks has paid off.
We all take risks-on people, on business, on capital structure.
Monday's stock moves means, in essence, some investors are willing to buy a public company stock -- and absorb all its operating costs and other risks -- just to get access to private Facebook shares.
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These factors are not intended to be an all-encompassing list of risks and uncertainties that may affect the Company's business.
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If we don't have definitive knowledge of all the long-term risks of antidepressants, I think it is now fair to say that we do have a definitive understanding of the fact that depression is a killer.
It will also verify that fresh euros are not freely available to bad investors with all the long-term inflation risks that entails.
In 2010, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission required publicly traded companies to disclose to their investors all financially material climate-related risks, including those linked to water availability and quality.
But now medical device makers are introducing an array of new, minimally invasive procedures to provide long-term pain relief without all the costs, risks, complications and recovery time of full-scale surgery.
Set against the dangers of all-out financial seizure, these risks seem worth taking.
The trouble with the tests, analysts say, is that regulators are using a one-size-fits-all approach to determine the risks that face European banks operating in vastly different markets .
Therefore, while e-commerce cut down the costs, it also shifts all the risks to the producers as the windows for distribution keep getting smaller due to over-crowding.
Today's activities in Bonn underscore an all-too-often overlooked reality: The astonishing developments in contemporary Germany entail serious risks for the West's security interests even as they hold out promising opportunities.
But his book is informative, entertaining, and basically correct about India's need to embrace capitalism more whole-heartedly, for all the costs and risks.
Of course jumping up and down is very good excercise - so its all a question of minimising risks to gain the greatest benefit.
There could be some distinct advantages to enlisting in the new, all-veteran organization, but also some very real risks.
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This leads to short-term perspectives and excessive risks, all of which have disequilibrating consequences that can lead to market collapse.
"A decision may be unpopular but ultimately the state has to act responsibly in a grown-up fashion to protect all people sometimes from risks that they wish to impose upon themselves, " Mr Needham added.
And yet while few people would comfortably admit to such activities as fare evading - least of all police chiefs - Professor McKenna says speeding still does not carry a stigma commensurate with its deadly risks.
The start-up must consider all of these questions and which risks are worthwhile and which are show stoppers.
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He called off the operation without sending in ground troops, with all the risks that would entail, and the three-week operation was widely regarded in Israel as a success.
Its latest assessment of the risks associated with BPA ignores all the peer-reviewed scientific papers on the subject, not to mention the conclusions drawn by the NIH and its Canadian counterpart.
Worse, any effort to re-inflate the bubble risks popping it again and all the pain that would entail.
Firms failed to disclose existence of additional fees, all the market risks, the lack of liquidity, long-term tax disadvantages, conflicts of interest and the fact that the "guaranteed death payment" is paid only when the client dies.
Although they have generally been viewed as safe by the public, the study provides compelling data that should make all parents take note about the risks associated with these colorful air-filled devices.
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If so, then why assume equity markets wouldn't throw up new business models to finance small businesses and credit-worthy consumers if government-insured deposits were no longer available at all to underwrite such risks?
But getting the right kind of help is not so easy, partly because food is not a one-solution-fits-all problem and partly because some of the help needed now risks making matters worse in the long run.
No wonder many top policy makers fear the U.K. economy is "turning Japanese, " doomed to repeat Japan's two lost decades as economic activity is sapped by a debt overhang with all the risks that capital becomes obsolete and skills erode through under-investment.
Virtually all pioneers acknowledge that there are risks related to being a first-mover. (I personally believe that the perils are overstated by those who would discourage free-thinkers.) Many innovators nevertheless remarkably choose to persist in their quest to change the world undaunted.
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The models take a top-down view of risks within a firm, looking at all markets simultaneously.
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