Bottom of the pile were the French, seen as a bad risk for passing on sensitive technology to third countries.
Right now, insurance companies have free reign to cherry pick the healthiest patients and shut out anyone who seems to them like a bad risk.
The credit rep told her the bank had seen problems on her credit reports reflecting her difficulties with her other lines of credit and had decided she had become a bad risk.
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You can read it all at the newspaper link but shocking as why else would this occur other than predictive modeling giving a bad risk assessment when in fact nobody has missed a payment?
That opinion changed in a hurry when some noncreditworthy homeowners were unable to make their payments as a boom in the U.S. housing market stalled, leading to a global credit crisis in which any risk was considered a bad risk.
Banks, Kaufer says, use similar descriptive analysis to determine if you're a good or bad credit risk.
At least that is the way it works when an ordinary citizen judged to be a bad credit risk seeks a loan.
That is not bad for a risk-free asset with a maturity of one to six years in theory, and often only a few months in practice.
Andrew Stumpff, an outspoken critic of the ESOP model who teaches at University of Michigan Law School, says it's bad enough to risk your retirement savings in a single company.
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.
"For someone at low genetic risk, being in a bad environment conveys only a modestly increased risk of drug abuse, " says lead study author Dr. Kenneth S. Kendler, professor of psychiatry and human genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
So, to avoid the risk of bad publicity, De Beers decided to market only those it dug up itself.
"The build-up to Christmas was worse when the weather was bad but the flood risk was low, " she said.
Better still to let shareholders and bondholders take the risk of bad management decisions and remove taxpayers from the equation.
It said walkers and climbers were at greatest risk during bad weather.
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"Many people with bad teeth also may have risk factors for heart disease, " Quyyumi said.
Many low-carb or no-sugar products still contain large amounts of saturated fat, which can raise bad cholesterol and increase your risk of heart disease.
We saw that most vividly with torceptrapib, the Pfizer drug that raised the good cholesterol, lowered the bad cholesterol and increased the risk of death.
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It's a plan that's aimed directly at the bottom line despite the risk of more bad public relations on worker issues, something the company believes shareholders are ready to cheer.
The market had basically held true to its news-driven moniker by falling on bad news relating to the risk of a nuclear catastrophe and then rising when those worries abated in the afternoon.
Don't let Tom Bodett kid you: a room at the 'lowest price of any national chain' is not a good thing if you're checking into a voodoo hellhole where there's a good risk of something bad happening to you.
The failure to adopt radical new policies to jump-start the economy and in one fell swoop to resolve the insolvent bank situation by ridding the overhang of toxic bad paper "increases the risk of a further dramatic equity sell-off, " says Christopher Wood, CLSA emerging markets analyst.
The first that will likely come to mind is risk of making a bad hire.
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The trials will examine whether the drug works both in patients with the bad gene and in high-risk patients without the gene.
How can mid-market CEOs reduce the risk of making a bad deal?
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"The daily risk of getting a bad lung illness with CF plus treatment is 0.05 percent, " he went on, and he wrote that number down.
The firms said the policy isn't new, but the disclosure shows the companies won't just go after the excessive risk-takers if bad trades hurt the firms' profits.
Of course, there is a necessary element of market risk here: every bad outcome suffered by an alternative investment fund is not necessarily proof of incompetence or malfeasance.
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And in case you think Lloyds is being singled out as somehow taking an unusually optimistic view of the risk of mortgages going bad, that would be wrong.
After that, non-Thais will not be allowed to participate in capital-raising activities, which could dilute their majority ownership just when the risk they took during bad times could be bearing profitable fruit.
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