Word: riskier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fighting a rearguard action against the money funds, many bankers trumpet that their deposits are guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and that money market funds are riskier. There is a slight risk, but since the funds are put largely into top bank and corporate securities, a number of banks and cor porations would have to go broke before the typical money market investor would suffer much loss. He would not even lose, but his yields would go down, if interest rates declined. If they dropped far enough, he might have been wiser to invest in a long-term...
...demonstrations resembled each other in many ways, including the surprisingly high number of people who participated in both. Conceding that battling police would be riskier in New York City, demonstrators took a different tack. But many of those camped out on Wall Street also discussed plans for another Seabrook occupation attempt in early spring...
...plants around here, there's going to be hell to pay. We've been letting coal go through for private homes and hospitals all along. But we've got to draw the line somewhere." With the National Guard and state police escorting coal trucks, confrontations became riskier. "I'm afraid we may see a move to violence," said one U.M.W. official in Washington. "We may see the 1930s again. These miners have fought the Army before...
...depositors the higher interest rates, Kuhrmeier had to find riskier investments than the Eurodollar market. He chose a Liechtenstein-based holding company called Texon Finanzanstalt, which he had founded in 1961. Over the years Kuhrmeier funneled $868 million of Crédit Suisse's Chiasso deposits to Texon. The company then bought stakes in more than 150 Italian companies dealing in, among other things, wine, plastics and vacation resorts...
...purpose," an opportunity to stroll or picnic. For others, it is a madcap race in which speed afoot is as important as accuracy of map reading. A fast runner might plot a lengthier indirect course over clear ground, whereas a canny, perhaps flabbier orienteer might take the shorter, riskier route of a direct bearing...