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...Jews in the more remote settlements, life is riskier. These are the communities that rub most against their Arab neighbors, partly because the Jewish residents are so aggressive in asserting their presence. Two weeks ago, hundreds of children from the hilltop settlements around Karnei Shomron marched down the road past Arab villages, chanting Israeli slogans and carrying signs heralding 20 years of settlement. To the Jewish settlers, such actions are not provocative but legitimate. Says Settlement Secretary Avner Vered: "These are religious people who believe they have the right to live all over Israel. When more Jews come here, nobody...
...accord would require that most American and British banks set aside higher-than-normal amounts of capital to cover losses on their riskier loans. British banks have been subject to risk-based capital requirements for several years, but U.S. banks must currently set aside reserves amounting to only 6% of total assets, however speculative their investments...
...what of the Senate? Senators play in the riskier game than representatives. Between the higher prestige of the office and the scarcity of opportunities to achieve it, Senate races attract stronger challengers. Senators also are more newsworthy. Unlike representatives, they do not themselves provide the bulk of the information that constituents receive. Moreover, Senators are expected to maintain a higher profile on the great issues of the day. For all these reasons Senators face tougher elections than modern representatives...
Many other institutions have run into difficulty by straying into new lines of business during the recent years of financial deregulation, which enabled S and Ls to cut their reliance on home mortgages and expand into riskier fields such as securities trading, commercial loans and real estate developments. Example: Territory Savings & Loan in Seminole, Okla., became insolvent last year, in part because of more than $10 million in losses on securities transactions. In Boynton Beach, Fla., Sunrise Savings & Loan fueled its growth with risky commercial loans on which it could charge high interest rates. Sunrise was reorganized by the bank...
...venture, it is Strom's job to calculate what prices they would need to charge and how many items they would have to sell to break even. The huge profits from certain staple items, such as Polo shirts (see box), give Lauren the freedom to expand into riskier products. Example: at any given time Lauren may offer 60 styles of sweaters in his collections, which will include a number of designs that he especially likes but that will sell too few copies, perhaps only 200 or so, to make a profit. Says Strom: "The manufacturer doesn't even want...