In particular, there was a serious and growing risk that it might endanger News Corp.
The people at Habanos are aware of the growing risk to the prestige of Cuban cigars.
Yet, the US downgrade stands as another testament to the growing risk involved with developed market debt.
But Mr Hill reckons there is a growing risk that these forecasts will soon be savagely cut.
For France, in particular, there is a growing risk that it will lose its AAA credit rating.
Since 1990, it has warned repeatedly about the growing risk Fannie and Freddie posed to U.S. taxpayers and the financial system.
The agency cited "underlying structural weaknesses" and a growing risk from shadow banking.
Growing risk aversion pushed investors towards the yen, Asia's traditional safe haven currency.
By making it straightforward to license patented traits, Syngenta can support GE innovation while concurrently reducing the growing risk of gene piracy.
"The proliferation of other forms of credit beyond bank lending is a source of growing risk from a financial-stability perspective, " Fitch Ratings said.
MURRAY, Utah (AP) Ricardo Portillo's daughters had begged him to stop refereeing in a soccer league because of the growing risk of violence from angry players.
Since these loans are in euros, rates this high reflect the growing risk the people of Greece will not be able to make good on their collective debts.
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When she discovered how prevalent they were in 2007, she began to call the bankers into her office to discover they were insulating their portfolios from the growing risk that the borrowers would default.
Toting around a computer filled with valuable data, however, is a growing risk: If the computer is lost or stolen, the user loses everything -- from a prized doctoral thesis to bank account numbers to records of passwords.
No doubt, the immediate cause for the sudden rise in the price of oil and gasoline is fear of disruptions in the supply of oil due to unrest in the Middle East and the growing risk of war with Iran.
If Europe's economies do not drive forward towards a single market, with labour markets that are more flexible (and international), there is a growing risk that some of its members will eventually find the gulf between their economies and their monetary policies too wide to endure.
The yield on high-yield bonds has risen to 9.33%, the highest level since 2002 and a sign of growing default risk, even though defaults remain near a historic low.
Drawing on the movements of its own clients, UBS notes other signs of growing appetite for risk in the markets.
The growing aversion to risk means that banks have even been wary of lending to each other, usually considered nearly as safe a proposition as government debt.
Investors' appetite for risk is growing again, he said, noting U.S. stocks are attracting more investor interest and that is filtering through the IPO market.
Add to that the growing legal and reputational risk (non-executives are now pilloried in the press when things go wrong) and many chief executives will conclude that what used to be an enjoyable perk is no longer worthwhile.
But writer and consultant Tim Gill, author of No Fear: Growing Up In A Risk-Averse Society and a former government adviser, believes that bullying is too often "misdiagnosed" and children should be encouraged to stand up for themselves before parents step in.
The effort comes amid growing concern about the risk of brain injuries in football, but the scope extends well beyond concussions to bone and joint injury, heart disease, depression and chronic pain that affect many players long after their careers are over.
Indeed, like Argentina, Italy faces a growing competitiveness loss given an increasingly overvalued currency and the risk of falling exports and growing current account deficit.
The mountainous country is rich in minerals, but the investment risk is only growing.
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