Word: risking
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...account up - a minor task at most companies - it's automatic, making it an easy, thought-free way to save. Indeed, Americans have more saved specifically for retirement than ever before. But the past year has shown that even with our added savings, we are at much greater risk today of our bank accounts running empty than when employer-guaranteed pensions were the norm. By Munnell's calculations, 44% of all Americans are in danger of going broke in their postwork years...
...laws required it to close its fund and start again. It did so with a far cheaper option: the employee-funded 401(k). The company made it clear that with the high interest rates at the time, Oxy employees could see their 401(k) account balances soar with little risk. Few doubted it - Oxy, like most other big companies of that era, had always taken care...
Halamka, who worked closely with his predecessor both while he was at the Medical School and most recently in central administration, said that Moriarty centralized Harvard’s telecommunication system and pushed for security measures to decrease the risk of privacy breaches...
...There’s a real risk that the [Afghan] people and much of the rest of the world will have a tough time embracing that government...
Often, the death of a private security contractor in Afghanistan goes unheralded; after all, they risk their lives for money, not country. Yet the drivers and guards who ride shotgun on the long convoys snaking over the mountains also suffer heavy casualties. Many have died heroically. Figures released to TIME by NATO showed that from June to September, more than 145 truck drivers and guards were killed in attacks on convoys and 123 vehicles were destroyed. (See up-close pictures of the war in Afghanistan...