The gambles have often paid off with discoveries of massive oilfields that boosted profits.
Our advice to speculators: If you like pure gambles, check out the foreign currency market.
The federal government has the aggregate force of more than 40 Proctor and Gambles.
Although the new rules will stop managers from taking such gambles, their funds are still risky.
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The study involved giving a number of subjects a series of choices involving the desirability of gambles.
Daly is no chemist, but the tall, energetic Harvard Business School graduate knows how to make calculated gambles.
Many of their gambles do not come off, but some of those that make it deliver huge rewards.
Some gambles work and are adopted by history and some do not and should be abandoned by it.
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Now, it has bet high stakes in one of its biggest gambles yet.
We can't allow financial institutions, including those that take your deposits, to make gambles that threaten the whole economy.
Darapladib, the drug to stabilize plaque in arteries, is typical of the gambles drug companies must take these days.
Growth and innovation come from daring ideas and calculated gambles, but boldness is getting harder to come by at some companies.
Trying to design a new drug or vaccine from the ground up is one of the riskiest gambles a corporation can take.
The bail-out may not reach those on the verge of desperation, who tend to be bigger farmers taking gambles on cotton crops.
Actually, she doesn't believe Grimoaldo is ruthless enough to kill the boy, and gambles that her outrageous demand might put the marriage on hold.
The outspoken developer has made several big gambles on the SoHo and Midtown South area, which have become hubs for technology and creative companies.
Coming from consulting and retail financial services, he had little stomach for the kind of gambles that investment bankers thrive on and occasionally regret.
The larger problem is that the perpetrators are still at large and the system that allowed huge derivative gambles on mortgages is still in place.
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Shareholder returns are at the mercy of commodity prices, drilling gambles, perpetual asset sales and acquisitions, and hedging talents on both commodities and foreign exchange desks.
Yet the suspicion is that such gambles lie beyond the talents of most steel managers, who have grown soft under the soothing influence of trade barriers and subsidies.
The table on this page lists companies that Leerink Swann or JMP Securities consider good gambles: These are smaller biotechs with drugs that have already shown signs of effectiveness.
Mendes gambles big on a last act that cuts out all the gadgets and gizmos, brings everything down to bare bones and ties the action to Bond's own history.
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Paradoxically, focusing on maximizing shareholder value ends up making less money for shareholders, because it leads firms to do things, like the recent JPMorgan gambles that actually destroy shareholder value.
"The history of container shipping involves ship lines taking huge gambles, " says Marc Levinson, who points to a trend for some American and European companies to move manufacturing back from Asia.
Under capitalism power flows to precisely the people who are willing to stake their money not on gambles or sure things but on testable hypotheses, thus generating knowledge and wealth for society.
Adolf Merckle, the founder of a drugs, cement and engineering conglomerate, committed suicide on January 5th after burdening his empire with heavy debts and misguided financial gambles that ultimately cost his family control.
Even if the state redeems the mistaken gambles of the past, keeps depositors' confidence alive, and does so without printing huge amounts of money, the future of the Russian banking system remains bleak.
Who made money on these risky investment gambles?
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Should the Court rule against the plaintiffs in Oxford, businesses may gain a powerful tool for nipping class actions in the bud, before they become bet-the-company gambles that force them to settle on onerous terms.
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This is due to a combination of clubs adjusting to the impact of relegation from the Premier League, and others attempting to to achieve promotion, often taking financial gambles to try and get to the top flight.
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