Personality can play a major role in how a person handles money: something as fundamental to personality as how risk-averse a person is can have lifelong consequences to his or her earning potential.
But writer and consultant Tim Gill, author of No Fear: Growing Up In A Risk-Averse Society and a former government adviser, believes that bullying is too often "misdiagnosed" and children should be encouraged to stand up for themselves before parents step in.
That's not to say all Clinton supporters would be averse to a McCain-Palin ticket.
Highly magnified footage of these experiments clearly shows a glucose-averse cockroach reacting to a dose of the sugar.
Mexico has historically been highly averse to allowing a foreign force to fight on its soil, experts said.
This risk-averse habit is a legacy of the post-bubble deflation years, when the zero nominal return on cash looked pretty good compared with the alternatives.
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In his classic book, The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham, proposed that risk averse investors seek a margin of safety, or leave room for error, to protect themselves from both poor decisions and market downturns.
"This industry is sort of a risk-averse, but there is going to be a change in mind-set, " he said.
Expect a few hits and a lot of losers as risk-averse consumers flock to just a handful of models.
She said Britain had a "risk-averse" culture in which "we can never take a proportionate and balanced view on anything when it comes to children".
When markets are risk-averse few will take a chance on dubious public-sector accounts.
Pendo, as many other startups, faced the paradox: clients very favorable to the technology, but very risk averse in dealing with a startup.
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Nick Gibson of Games Investor, a consultancy, notes that as costs rise, risk-averse games publishers regard film franchises as a safe bet.
But to cast Flacco as a risk-averse game manager wouldn't do his Sunday performance justice.
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When investors are uncertain (risk-averse), they have a preference for holding cash and the price of shares falls.
His team spent five months consulting with cafeteria workers, coaching veggie-averse schoolchildren and opening up a community kitchen serving wholesome meals.
Perhaps, however, it is time to let the French, as well as other corners of market-averse Europe, in on a dark secret.
Metcalfe started 3Com (nasdaq: COMS - news - people ) to peddle his speedy communications protocol, Ethernet, after a risk-averse Xerox balked.
Even smokers, who are normally cast into the back alleys in cigarette-averse Los Angeles, have a comfortable trolley on an outdoor patio in which to enjoy their Gitanes cigarettes.
But the prime minister, a risk-averse politician, made one of his rare political mistakes when he clumsily trimmed arts funding, likening recipients of arts grants to corporate fat cats.
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Part of it is because CIOs have assumed a more political role in organisations, and they look at things much more from a financial perspective, so they adopt a risk-averse approach.
So, for instance, a risk-averse investor could choose to buy the tranche that exposes him to credit risk only after the first 10% of credit losses have been absorbed by other investors.
Hiring him would be a risk for athletic directors, which happen to be a very risk-averse breed.
For all parties involved, the Lin-to-Rockets move was a prudent risk-averse business decision.
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Exxon in recent years has become increasingly risk averse in its wildcat exploration after a series of costly dry holes.
The risk-averse FDA would not have left a product on the market if it were dangerous, as NRDC has been claiming.
Early morning trading saw the market place in a more risk-averse mentality.
She lost that fight this month, when the Administration released its regulatory-reform plan, opting for a more risk-averse and bank-friendly approach of more closely monitoring the activities of the largest firms.
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