Word: riskier
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...rates of return to levels comparable to the best North American universities," says John Hood, vice-chancellor of Oxford. They've some way to go. In the decade to August 2006, Oxford's central endowment delivered an annualized return of 6.7%. Over an almost identical period, an appetite for riskier investments helped Harvard's endowment return 16.7%. At Yale, the rate was 17.2%. (In a coup for Cambridge, David Swensen, the former Wall Street exec who has masterminded Yale's returns, now sits on the university's own Investment Board...
...Lightning is another very common, very deadly - and very underappreciated - natural hazard. Men are more likely to die from lightning partly because, in addition to their riskier occupations and behaviors, they are more likely to be outside playing or watching sports, Songer found...
...says Dan Henkle, Gap's senior vice-president for social responsibility, is not simply about monitoring, but about collaborating with factory staff so that they too feel responsible for conditions on the factory floor. It's messier, costlier and longer-term than a quick audit - and it's potentially riskier from a p.r. standpoint. But this is CSR for grown-ups. "The world is a complicated place," says Impactt's Hurst. "Try putting that on a label...
Recent history says that when a financial trend gets popular, it gets riskier too. Think subprime mortgages. That may or may not be the case with big banks and microfinance. What is clear is that this pair won't be parting ways anytime soon...
...that fund raisers, donors and government officials remain hesitant to discuss the nitty-gritty details of AIDS transmission - details of sharing needles, gay cruising and the sex trade. Pisani's book lays out the relevant science. It explains, for example, why regular sex with the same five partners is riskier than 10 successive monogamous relationships, and why sharing needles is more dangerous than almost any kind of sexual activity...