• But few of those who use the two languages regularly risk running the two operating systems side by side.

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  • Hitachi has never before taken on the risk of operating a nuclear power utility, as opposed to simply building and selling the plants.

    FORBES: Connect

  • In particular, it tells a bidder how much capital its so-called Train Operating Company (TOC) would have to hold as a protection for taxpayers against the risk that in the course of operating the franchise the TOC went bust or risked going bust.

    BBC: Why all the West Coast bids were wrong

  • So by borrowing money at the holding company level at, say, 10% pretax, Catacosinos and his investors can put it to work earning 125 basis points more, aftertax, at the operating company level with nary a risk.

    FORBES: Leveraging the regulators

  • In 2005, the government passed a controversial hydrocarbons law that imposed significantly higher royalties and required foreign firms then operating under risk-sharing contracts to surrender all production to the state energy company in exchange for a predetermined service fee.

    FORBES: Bolivia

  • When the economy is operating below potential there is little risk of inflation.

    ECONOMIST: Give growth a chance

  • He also sees risk of higher operating expenses as the company builds out a new back-end platform.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Many of them were high-risk flights from forward operating bases in the countryside.

    CNN: Excerpt: Inside Blackwater's mission in Afghanistan

  • He took with him the Harvard heads of domestic and international fixed income and both their staffs, as well as the chief risk officer, chief technology officer and chief operating officer.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Unfortunately, it also raises the risk that laws and regulations will just add to operating costs that investors ultimately bear.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Today, based on your medical history, surgeons can usually analyze, quite accurately, your risk of complications (or death) before setting foot in the operating room.

    WSJ: Book Excerpt: Confessions of a Surgeon

  • Colin Witheat, SmithKline's risk manager, says he can halve operating costs by cutting the fees he once paid an insurer to front business around the world.

    ECONOMIST: Lloyd��s of London

  • But it included long 'to do' lists to make sure old platforms, operating in very challenging corrosive conditions, are not putting offshore workers or the environment at risk.

    BBC: Statoil platforms

  • The risk to Microsoft lies in seeing its enterprise franchise undermined by mobile, as other operating systems are dominant in this one sphere where people and companies are buying more.

    FORBES: Top Marks For Microsoft's Surface Tablet, So Far

  • Summary: Following the latest global economic crisis, organizations of all types are still operating in a volatile, highly changeable risk environment.

    FORBES: Management and Business Operations

  • Many companies operating in Colombia and other high-risk countries take out ransom insurance policies on their employees because the risk of kidnapping is so high.

    CNN: Kidnapping is big business in Colombia

  • Despite a country founded by risk-takers, our schools are the antithesis of American culture--bound by arcane rules, operating regardless of outcomes, eschewing creative technologies and managing human resources like spokes in a wheel, without differentiation or reward.

    FORBES: 01.24.08, 6:38 PM ET

  • In fact, over the past three years Deutsche Bank has deliberately and dramatically reduced its dependence on risk-taking as a source of operating earnings, while enjoying more substantial progress with clients than at any time in its recent history.

    ECONOMIST: Russia's rotten statelets

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