It is safer for Mattel to add another item to its Barbie range than risk something new.
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One of the keys to rational risk assessment is to assess the risk of doing something versus the risk of not doing something.
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As the Alderney fisherman so wisely said, why put another risk on something?
Send the same ads to all of them, because they have to watch or risk missing something.
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We agreed to refrain from adding new features if they might risk breaking something that already worked.
Security and availability are well-well-founded concerns, but CIOs and other executives looking at cloud need to take a close, hard look at another risk, something far more fundamental to their businesses.
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Don't let Tom Bodett kid you: a room at the 'lowest price of any national chain' is not a good thing if you're checking into a voodoo hellhole where there's a good risk of something bad happening to you.
Supply-chain directors who may have once seen risk management as something initiated in response to an unexpected event are realizing that to effectively manage risk plans must be in place beforehand.
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But the increase in risk, at something like 40%, is modest and hard to detect.
But I like to bring to readers things where people take a risk and do something different.
Risk analysis, and balancing cost and risk, is something the insurance industry has been doing for centuries.
Mr. Walcott said he wanted to make sure teachers didn't take the risk of saying something that could be misinterpreted.
"My risk tolerance was something that drove me to want to sell" the securities, the complaint quotes Shulman as saying, in defending his actions.
"There's a risk in showing something that isn't finished, " Bender says.
The approach some lawmakers would take, rushing the permitting process in ways that would put our workers and waters at needless risk, is something we just can't afford.
So long-bond buyers in today's market run the risk of purchasing something that is extremely likely to lose value while gaining nothing or next to nothing in yield pick-up.
The lesson here is simple and poignant: you never know where or in what setting your passions will be discovered, and so you must allow yourself the opportunity to explore and take the risk of learning something new.
If we define a systemic risk event as something large enough to affect the entire global financial and economic system, then you would think that the best time for investors to be told about these terrible events is before they occur.
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And Mr Poortman argued that corruption acted as a catalyst for the global financial crisis - because ratings agencies had a conflict of interest and "turned a blind eye to high levels of risk", something he said was "a form of corruption".
For risk management, consider something along the lines of a 15-20% trailing stop.
Dan Sullivan used to own a liquor store and he likes racehorses--so he knows something about risk and playing the odds.
But being unemployed is the lowest risk opportunity to start something new.
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The risk of accidentally creating something bad is probably low.
When you buy a corporate bond, you buy, in essence, the risk-free rate (Treasuries) plus something extra to compensate for the risk that you won't get your money back.
"What would be the size of the fund, how much are we required to contribute and whether it is enough to cover the reinsurance risk, this is something the insurance companies have to work out, " he said.
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That risk would amount to something only if deeper trouble in South Korea caused Japanese banks to fold, if Japan's authorities then failed to contain that crisis in their own monetary system, and (assuming the highest degree of contagion) if Western central banks then failed to protect theirs.
Accordingly, there are factors that make U.S. bonds definitely something other than risk-free for investors.
So, putting it all back together and we come up with something of a risk floor, if you will.
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Inception is something of a risk for Time Warner studio Warner Bros. because it is such a complicated concept and because the film has been kept under wraps.
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