These range from planting mangroves to increase water catchments in high flood regions to providing low-cost risk transfer methods to farmers in developing countries.
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Tesla is taking a slight cost risk that ultimately all customers will want to buy the Supercharger upgrade and receive unlimited, free long distance travel for life.
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Risk analysis, and balancing cost and risk, is something the insurance industry has been doing for centuries.
Three things matter in the selection of a mutual fund: Cost, risk and performance.
These development efforts will be undertaken at no cost or risk to the United States.
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Actuaries are employed by the insurance industry to estimate the cost and risk that companies face.
Reduce the cost and risk to acceptable levels, so that you could get underway.
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The success or failure of active strategy is always measured on a net-of-cost, risk-adjusted basis against its benchmark.
With this model, the cost and risk decreases while potential for success rises.
Or, you can use software to help manage the problem, which helps you potentially to reduce both cost and risk.
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In a government-funded roadway, that cost and risk are borne by taxpayers.
But when the cost and risk become too high, more effort needs to be focused on safety, and more care in analyzing the risk.
Thus, ESO decided that the combination of cost and risk was too unfavorable and hence pursued a telescope in the 30 to 60 meter range.
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The Institutes will each have a well-defined technology focus to address industrially-relevant manufacturing challenges on a large scale and to provide the capabilities and facilities required to reduce the cost and risk of commercializing new technologies.
These professionals use mathematics, statistics, and financial theory to assess the risk that an event will occur and to help businesses and clients develop policies that minimize the cost of that risk, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
The basic story is you open the markets to wider participation and the cost of shifting risk goes down.
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Read this case study about how poorly assessing technical risk cost one company millions of dollars and months of delay.
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For Pippi's mother, the uncertainty is worth the cost and the risk even if it offers nothing more than further hope.
They also want people with a good mix of industrial engineering knowledge and command of supply chains for efficiency, cost savings and risk reduction.
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Opportunity cost is the risk of making decisions now that result in lower returns over the longer term than you would have gotten otherwise.
Cardiff Met has fought to maintain its independence, claiming the merger plan was high cost and high risk, and not backed by a proper business case.
And Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, said he was "deeply concerned" that the privatisation may cost lives and risk workers' lives.
So the central part of this is to make sure that in future financial crises, that banks bear the cost of any risk the government has to take to protect the economy.
There is a cost to the risk of trying to time the markets, as anyone who has made the bet on shorter maturities or on other assets has witnessed over the last decade.
This is mainly due to the high levels of risk and uncertainty that come with new tech: private firms would generally rather seek out low-risk, low-cost alternatives (i.e. more efficient internal processes or capital goods) than to invest time and effort into developing high-risk, initially-high cost alternatives (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells).
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This is a sensible and POSITIVE outcome as risk premiums represent the cost that hedgers pay to speculators to bear the risk they want to avoid.
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American regulators have recently been taking more of a cost-benefit approach to risk, whereas Europeans are putting more emphasis on precautions, whatever the cost.
And the opportunity cost for not taking risk is itself a form of taking a risk.
The perceived value of active defense has to be weighed against the risk and cost.
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