There is always some element of risk involved, but the degree of risk varies from one investment to another.

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There was an element of meteorology in her BSc geophysical sciences degree at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.

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If the row is not resolved by fighting, the degree to which different countries have exercised normal civil administration of the islands will become an important element of future legal claims.

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The whole point of the "risk adjusted" element of RAMI is that it's meant to allow at least some degree of comparison between death rates in different hospitals, even if say, one is a small hospital doing very little complex surgery, and another is a large hospital treating a high number of trauma and critical cases.

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