Word: safe
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...similarities between commercial airplanes and automobiles are striking. It's all about safe and efficient transportation, using the latest technology and the best fuel efficiency. So it feels very comfortable coming to Ford...
...former TIME 100 honoree Sheila Bair, chairwoman of the FDIC, was one of the first government officials to recognize the danger of the subprime crisis and was relentless in fighting for a temporary increase on the limits of FDIC insurance. Because of her efforts, your FDIC-insured deposits are safe and sound...
...toxic, it's a legacy"), things may shake out much differently from what Wall Street hopes and Krugman & Co. fear. Both sides in the debate seem to expect that the asset purchases will provide nothing but benefits to the banks that sell. That's not a safe assumption. We don't yet know what private investors will be willing to pay for those once-thought-to-be-valuable legacies. With the government stimulating demand, the toxic assets will presumably go for more than the fire-sale prices currently prevailing. But with profit-hungry private investors doing the bidding, the selling...
...time of his death, Cheever's lasting fame seemed the safest of safe bets. But 27 years later, his star has dimmed. Bailey says part of the problem is that Cheever's work hasn't been embraced by academics, the gatekeepers of the canon. It might help that the Library of America, which has its own role in picking the immortals, has just admitted Cheever into its canon. In its new two-volume collection of his work, edited by Bailey, you hear Cheever's sly, lambent voice everywhere. Is it true the professors won't make room for him? Open...
...they store fat in their liver, which is unlike us. But it sounds awful and because most people don't have a stake in it, it's easier to have an opinion - like this is just decadent and mean and the ultimate example of our inhumanity. It's a safe way to say you're sticking up for animals without putting much on the line...