AmeriCredit (No. 30) was among the first to realize that sophisticated predictive software used to evaluate better credit risks could also be applied to lesser-quality risks without rejecting every applicant.
It's a vision that involves taking calculated business risks, not with the quality of the journalism, but with everything else.
But it also required one other essential American quality -- the courage to take risks, the kind of risks that you have to take on if you want to succeed.
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Alternately deadpan and lacerating, this persona risks alienating the audience, a quality that also happens to be the signature of male sitcom auteurs, including Larry David and Louis C.
In 2010, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission required publicly traded companies to disclose to their investors all financially material climate-related risks, including those linked to water availability and quality.
Over the past year, as interest rates have inched up and there have been concerns about credit quality, the price of some bond funds has declined as these risks all reared their heads.
Higher yields are attainable by investing in lower-credit-quality bonds and foreign bonds, but as yields rise, so do the risks.
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While municipals have undergone significant changes, with some added risks, since the financial meltdown of 2008, massive defaults on quality bonds are not going to happen.
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There can be no sustainable development when risks erode progress, when inequalities and violence weaken societies, when quality education is not available to all girls and boys.
The study was actually conducted in and reported on air pollution in Boston, but it pointed out that air quality levels even below current standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency still pose risks to people who breathe particulate air pollution.
"They also pose risks to consumers from malware and often fail to provide viewers with the quality product they could often get through a growing number of legitimate sources, " said the spokesman.
The organizations claimed that the project introduced potential risks of hazardous materials and emissions, wildfires and noise which would degrade air quality, prime farmland, cultural resources and endangered species (the blunt-nosed lizard, San Joakin kit fox and giant kangaroo rat).
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