Alt A loans are somewhat in-between prime and subprime mortgages on the risk scale.
But SMBs need to know how to mitigate the risk as they scale their business.
But it's hard to tell exactly where society comes down on the balancing the risk-benefit scale.
Women feel more comfortable than men taking social risks, such as moving to a new city or wearing unconventional clothes, according to studies using this new, domain-specific risk-taking scale.
The efficient frontier measures all investments on a scale of risk and return.
But the risk of large-scale terrorism is the primary concern, Kelly said.
Speaking of the industry in general, Mr. Medvedev said the Gulf spill would trigger a reassessment of the scale of risk and how to prevent massive accidents.
That implies investors see the risk of a full-scale eurozone meltdown as having receded significantly.
As Egyptian forces reinforced the northern part of Sinai, the risk of a full-scale local revolt grew.
Dean Zarras has been writing software since 1982, focusing on large-scale trading and risk management systems on and off Wall Street.
Eli Noam, the director of Columbia University's Institute for Tele-Information, calls the consolidation a natural evolution to achieve scale and diversify risk.
The structure allows Apple to minimize risk and take advantage of scale by having most of its foreign earnings held by one entity.
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Given the legal and political risk and the size and scale needed to deal with both, it would be next to impossible to start a new tobacco company now.
The shift from collectivisation to a market economy, Mr Sneath argues, was in many ways a far more wrenching change, one that undermined or destroyed institutions that had long sustained nomadic pastoralism, particularly ones that spread risk and reaped economies of scale.
"Cleantech investing is mostly large in scale, large in risk and large in potential rewards, " Dolezalek says.
So, according to MegaFirm, economic meltdowns and large scale government dependency reduce risk?
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Why worry about something that is off-the-scale in terms of risk?
Even officials at the Treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sided with the banks, saying the proposal threatened to add risk to the system rather than scale it back.
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Middle-market firms, on the other hand, may have to scale back their operations or risk losing business to lower-cost competitors.
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On a program of this scale, I have considered that risk and put plans and contracts in place, which have been reviewed by OGC and the NAO.
But the venture world has learned some hard lessons on the difficulty of building energy businesses: they face science risk, often take a long time to scale and can be capital intensive.
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From natural disasters and political unrest, to turbulent commodity prices, business on a global scale brings never-before-seen risk.
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Nigeria was ranked a 5 on a scale of 1 to 5 for terrorist risk, while Tanzania and Mozambique were on par with the United States and Canada at a ranking of 2.
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Control Risks ranks countries across four categories, including political and terrorist risk, and rates each country on a five-point scale, from Insignificant through Extreme.
Data from the Women's Health Initiative and other large-scale trials suggest estrogen plus progestin therapy moderately reduces risk for fractures but increases the chance of developing strokes, dementia, deep vein thrombosis, urinary incontinence and gallbladder disease.
The scale of how much money American banks have at risk in the eurozone comes from a new BIS table of the actual and potential exposure of banks to most economies via cross-border loans and financial transactions.
As noted above, the use of genetic engineering techniques for anything that falls within the regulatory definition of a "pesticide"--even when that definition is tortured to claim jurisdiction--triggers case-by-case review, which is not necessary for small-scale field trials for other pesticides, regardless of risk.
Our knowledge economy is producing alarmism on an industrial scale and the siren call to avoid this or that risk is ceaseless.
Likewise, investors that tip the scale in favor of guts over brains take on excessive risk without a rational, thought out plan.
Along with a global recession came a drying up of both capital for large-scale project financing and investor tolerance for the sort of risk inherent in early-stage cleantech ventures.
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