Word: riskier
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These feel like frightening times. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and terrorism are only the latest in a litany of fresh perils, from snipers to West Nile virus to mad cow disease. Many say things are riskier for humans now than they have ever been...
FOREIGN They're riskier, but consider Israeli stocks--they have been pummeled on fears of Iraqi strikes. World-class Israeli companies like Check Point Software and Comverse would be bargains with a quick peace. Amidex Israel Technology fund is a direct tech play; for more diversification consider First Israel, a diversified closed-end fund traded in the U.S. Another region to consider is Asia, where emerging markets are fairly well insulated from the war. They will benefit quickly from falling oil prices, and they have great growth potential linked to that of the powerful Chinese economy...
...money makes working on riskier projects a lot easier…I live mostly off of some of my books,” he says...
...sexual partners and the type of sex—whether vaginal, anal or oral—determine the risk of HIV transmission more directly than broad identity categories. As BGLTSA Public Relations Chair Marcel A. Q. LaFlamme ’04 points out, “ultimately those statistically riskier categories come from risky behavior,” not sexual orientation...
...economy rebounds, many types of bonds will become riskier, if only because when rates inevitably head back up, the value of today's low-yielding bonds will fall. (It's that old formula: rates up, bonds down.) The parallels between today and 1993-94 may be instructive. Back then, a slow, jobless recovery and falling rates prompted many people to pile into long-term bonds--which typically yield more than short-term ones--and they got creamed when interest rates rose sharply...