Those who don't hold to the standard risk getting blacklisted.
Many companies in every kind of industry have the financial wherewithal to make investments and take sizable risks in the U.S., but layers of uncertainty have snuffed out the standard risk-reward equation, at least for the U.S. and Western Europe.
Perhaps the most intriguing idea discussed at demo day was advanced by Clinicast, an analytics company that aspires to develop an industry-standard health risk score, analogous to the FICO credit score.
Those who don't hold to the standard run the risk of being blacklisted.
Therefore, fuel buyers that rely on manual processes, spreadsheets, and sub-standard industry practices risk buying a load of fuel on the high end of a price swing every other day.
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But it's too early to tell whether these surgeries carry more risk than standard operations.
Britain was not identified as a credit risk by Standard and Poor's in its report earlier this month.
Tisch liked to short stocks, but when he sensed systemic risk he sold Standard and Poor's Index futures.
Poon plans to recruit 100 African-Americans who are very unlikely to have heart attacks according to a standard survey called the Framingham risk score.
The new "sufficient" standard will mean that the risk of someone becoming ill with an ear infection or stomach upset must not exceed 8%.
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Since laparoscopic gallbladder removal became the standard of care, the risk of tearing the bile duct which was the most common serious complication, has plummeted.
U.S market will temporarily lose its status as a risk-free standard.
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The report also highlighted the lack of an accepted international industry standard for tug tow line emergency release systems, and asked risk management organisation Lloyd's Register to develop a standard to ensure tow lines can be released effectively in an emergency.
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For decades, US government bonds were the gold standard for long-term, risk free fixed income investors.
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International trials show that adding Eloxatin to the standard chemotherapy combination helps reduce the risk of relapse after surgery by 25%.
For the first time, the next generation of Americans, our grandchildren, risk having a lower standard of living than we enjoyed.
Cutting the umbilical cord immediately after birth - currently standard practice - puts the baby at risk of iron deficiency, experts say.
Unless we come up with long-term solutions to grow the American economy, create more jobs and maintain our standard of living, we run the risk of a societal meltdown.
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As you can see in the graph below, when combining such assets, returns generally shift to the lower right: higher return and lower risk (as measured by standard deviation).
As the economic news worsens and profits dive, more firms will be at risk of breaching covenants on standard measures such as the ratio of debt to earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
Taking standard multivitamins did not appear to elevate the risk.
The vertical axis (Y axis) is the compounded portfolio return and the horizontal axis (X axis) is portfolio risk as measured by the annual standard deviation of return.
This meant that the Taxotere group had a 30% reduction in the risk of death compared to the standard treatment group, and a 28% reduction in the chance of their cancer returning.
Timothy Pitt-Payne QC for the information commissioner, argued on Tuesday that the two "risk registers" requested under FOI - the transitional risk register requested by Mr Healey, and a broader "strategic risk register" requested by Evening Standard journalist Nicholas Cecil - should be released.
The standard explanation here is better governance and lower systemic risk.
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The institute said that vehicles that received good ratings for rollover protection had roofs more than twice as strong as required by the current federal standard, and estimated that such roofs reduced the risk of serious and fatal injury in single-vehicle rollovers by about 50 percent compared with roofs that met the minimum requirement.
Risk analysis is a basic requirement of the standard, as is the establishment of a security policy.
Whenever fiduciaries fail to meet the standard of care required of them, theoretically they face the risk of litigation.
With players like Sony, Microsoft and Intel all trying to impose their own agendas, there's a risk the compromises could result in a less secure standard.
Mr Weber, the UBS chairman and former president of Germany's central bank, called for a global regulatory standard that would allow banks to avoid fine-tuning their risk operations in individual countries.
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