Being site-specific, local languages serve as vehicles for sharing knowledge and experiences about a dynamic and potentially risky environment that is now subject to rapid and unpredictable climate change.
According to testimony, Enron's ex-Chairman Lay and ex-Chief Executive Skilling had repeatedly portrayed the division as a steady source of predictable growth--as opposed to a high-yield and potentially risky business.
On Monday, DCM Capital, a small and virtually unknown London-based trading house, is set to launch a bold, and potentially risky, platform for retail customers which claims to give users the ability to translate social media sentiment into investible trading signals.
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On the other hand, the bank's chairman and chief executive, Jamie Dimon, is utterly mortified that he allowed the loss to grow and grow, under his nose, and in spite of warnings in the media that one of the bank's London-based trading desks, home of the famous Whale, was engaging in huge and potentially risky transactions.
Wall Street's five big investment banks Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns have piled into potentially illiquid (and thus risky) assets, from bridge loans to collateralised-debt obligations (pools of tranched debt), over the past three years.
Many consumers do not voluntarily buy coverage against potentially risky and serious losses.
But corporations going the Berkshire route confront a wall of criticism from commentators who have convinced themselves that buybacks are risky and potentially injurious to shareholders?
Which means that even if - as is likely - the Secretary of State Jeremy Hunt gives a green light for the bid to be launched in a couple of weeks or so, it would be both potentially expensive and very risky for News Corporation to press the button on the bid then.
Striking up a conversation with the person next to you on the subway is risky, and potentially time-consuming.
Rather than once a year, women are now encouraged to get these exams less frequently to avoid false positives, potentially risky biopsies and undue anxiety.
And he welcomes the recent move by the Bank of England to allow banks and building societies to swap potentially risky mortgage debts for secure government bonds to help them operate during the credit squeeze.
The Ospreys varied their tactics with some cross-field Biggar up-and-unders from their own 22, a potentially risky policy, but which brought the reward of a penalty and some much-needed territorial gain from Biggar's touch-finder.
This preference for "stability" over potentially positive but uncertain, and possibly risky, change is the default-setting for professional arms controllers, and the diplomatic corps and foreign policy establishment more generally.
Malware can invade a smartphone when a consumer unknowingly clicks a malicious link in a text message or email, surfs a risky website, or downloads and uses a potentially unsafe app on their device.
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Certainly, this rate was too high and surgeons set about refining the indications for carrying out this potentially risky operation, reserving it only for those patients most likely to benefit.
As an investor, you are placing a potentially risky long term bet on the team, especially Sergey and me.
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And, frankly, we no longer have sufficient naval vessels or the political will required to undertake such potentially risky operations wherever necessary.
This would potentially provide better results than stents or bypass surgery, and have the added benefits of being much less risky and expensive.
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