Investors should note that generally there are restrictions on the ability to shift money out of stable-value accounts into competing low-risk accounts.

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The tablet market will likely change the way people use computers, and so major computer companies need to have some competing product or risk missing out on the huge growth in this segment.

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He noted that there is considerable risk from a competing drug, SU11248, being developed for kidney cancer by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).

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But the Bluebirds are not willing to risk the financial rewards available from competing in the English system.

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Because America continues to underinvest in clean energy innovation and competing countries continue to make gains, we risk not only losing clean energy manufacturing, but the innovation as well.

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In both cases, US firms were competing in the tenders and the Pentagon threatened that Israeli participation would risk continued US-Israeli cooperation.

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Two competing groups have found a genetic quirk on chromosome 9 that boosts your risk of having a heart attack by 40% to 60%, if you inherited the gene from both your mother and father.

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Competing too often results in investors taking uncompensated, unrecognized, unwanted, or misperceived risk.

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"Clearly it brings a level of credibility to what is a high-risk investment profile, given how much work there is to be done and who they're competing against, " he says.

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