With predictions of a worse hurricane season than normal this year, one would think the 68m people living in high-risk regions had learned their lesson.
"The opportunity to acquire tier-one assets in low-risk regions, and ideally geographically suited to the growing Asian market does not come round very often, " he later told reporters, according to Reuters.
The United Nations also warned that the Tuareg and Arab civilians in Timbuktu, Kidal and Gao regions are at risk of reprisal attacks.
In the WTO case, the U.S. was given an opportunity to justify this different treatment by showing that the policy even-handedly addresses different levels of risk for dolphins in different regions.
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Thus, ConocoPhillips seems to be moving away from projects in regions with high political risk and uncertain regulatory environments.
In developed regions, the comparable risk is 1 in 4, 000.
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Okolloh hopes Ushahidi can be used to send reminder alerts to people on antiretroviral medication or warnings in regions that are at high risk for natural disasters.
Until 2001, these two regions appeared to hold the greatest risk of major conflict.
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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The downside risk is if inflation becomes overheated in these regions or if there is a significant slowdown in advanced nations that will hurt the export-driven growth developing regions have enjoyed.
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As it would turn out, those two brain regions happen to control how we perceive risk.
The fact is, other regions offer higher returns with no more risk than many Asian markets today, or returns that are at least as good without as much risk.
But the fact is that we have a lot of civilian personnel in places like Libya, in places like Afghanistan and in Iraq and other regions of the world where there is risk involved in serving your country and representing America's interests.
Experts calculated that people in the most affected regions had an additional 4 to 7 percent overall risk of developing cancers including leukemia and breast cancer.
Also, he said, higher prices mean companies might be more willing to undertake mining in regions normally considered less desirable due to factors such as political risk.
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The staff at risk are based at the BBC's operations in Scotland, the English regions, and radio stations including Five Live and the Asian Network.
Other regions, including Puntland, are likely to be identified as being at risk of famine in the coming weeks unless the supply of aid increases substantially.
However, these discoveries often are regions not very hospitable, such as an Arctic climate or areas with a high political risk.
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While those regions are stable relative to some parts of the world, Apache is effectively diversifying and lessening risk through these acquisitions off the Southern US Coast.
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