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Despite their name, junk bonds -- more politely known as high-yield, high- risk bonds -- often serve a useful financial purpose. Companies that are too small to issue blue-chip bonds can use high-yield securities to raise money for expansion. Because their debt is considered riskier than the bonds of their larger brethren, the junk issuers must pay five percentage points or more above the prime rate...
...part, Weil suggests that Harvard's decision to invest in the "less traditional areas" has been not so much a question of a riskier strategy as a function of the University's financial strength. Weil points out that many colleges do not have the money to make the high-return investments Harvard has made...
Tackling the transformation of Willy Loman from a struggling, middle-aged no-name into a defeated, desperate old man, Larry O'Keefe is nothing short of fantastic. O'Keefe makes this already difficult role even riskier by assuming the burden of a believable New York accent, yet he succeeds brilliantly in portraying both the change of age and the evolution of psyche that constitute Willy Loman...
...industry's dream deregulation bill, the Garn-St. Germain Act. That law created a new breed of thrift operator. In came highflyers like Keating who shifted their depositors' money (now insured for $100,000 instead of $40,000) from unexciting residential mortgages to potentially more lucrative but indisputably riskier shopping malls, resort developments, energy-generating windmills. The new breed awarded themselves seven-digit salaries, private jets, hunting preserves and yachts on which to entertain members of Congress. Keating and his associates took $21 million from Lincoln even as it was heading into receivership. Named head of the Office of Thrift...
Drinking during pregnancy, and even while nursing, is riskier than many women realize. Each year more than 50,000 U.S. babies are born with alcohol-related defects...