Word: riskier
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...study authors hypothesized that participants taking testosterone would engage in riskier, more aggressive behavior - that is, offer their fellow participant a lesser amount of money. What happened instead was that the women who received testosterone made significantly more equitable offers than those who received a placebo, offering their partners an average of 3.9 money units out of 10, vs. 3.4 money units...
With Penn maintaining a stranglehold on the line of scrimmage, though, it was only when the Crimson did go to its riskier plays—long balls to junior wideouts Chris Lorditch and Marco Iannuzzi—that it put itself in position to score...
...World Health Organization's Beijing office, Dr. Michael O'Leary, to tell the newspaper, "The H1N1 vaccine is one of the safest vaccines being used. When it's available to me, I would not hesitate to get the vaccine developed and produced by China." (Read "H1N1: Hitting the Young, Riskier...
...wake of the financial crisis, prosecutors again hoped e-mail would point to wrongdoers. In mid-2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission released e-mails that seemed to show that analysts at credit-rating agencies understood that the mortgage bonds they were rating AAA were actually much riskier than that. An analyst wrote to a colleague, "Let's hope we're all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters." However, no criminal charges have been brought against rating-agency officials. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...bond market is so strong. In other words, if you are fearful of stocks, you're just going to stay in the fixed-income market. But we are in a low-yield environment now, so those same investors - individuals and investment managers - are reaching out for riskier assets to get more yield. That's why you see things like junk bonds rallying. You also see commodities rallying - but that's also an expression of risk aversion. People see stocks as too risky, but they still want return...