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...buying fewer risk-free treasury bonds and carefully investing in riskier stocks, Summers suggested that countries could derive increased revenue from their reserves, a nearly “free” source of extra funds...
...buying fewer risk-free treasury bonds and carefully investing in riskier stocks, Summers suggested that countries could derive increased revenue from their reserves, a nearly “free” source of extra funds...
...risk, and many Pakistanis are frightened by the potential for instability. But the alternative, a continuation of the status quo, in which our President lacks the legitimacy that comes from having stood in a fair election and large segments of the country feel unrepresented by the state, is even riskier...
...silly (a woman comes home to find her husband in bed with a chicken ? a love object that, 10 years later, Woody Allen would turn into a sheep and, 35 years on, Edward Albee would make a goat). But the repertoire he had in mind was much broader, deeper, riskier than those. So, with a mixture of bravery and bravado, Lenny decided to bring the intimacy and threat of uninhibited talk to the nightclub stage. He not only said, I have something to say; he said, I've got to say this. Then he took the final dangerous step...
...article, including members of the Bush Administration, say that a pre-emptive strike is too risky. But if the U.S. is ever going to defend a line in the sand with North Korea, that is the least provocative way to do it, and next time it will only be riskier. Such a strike could be seen by the North Korean leadership for what it is: a limited act of defense of the U.S. homeland against a gathering threat, and not an overall attack on North Korea. Pyongyang tries carefully to cultivate the impression that it will lash out in response...