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Word: hazardous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...decade. This would be sweet, if he weren't saying it as he's clapping his hand over her groin with all the subtlety of a baseball player adjusting his cup. It's almost as if her womanhood was chattel he mislaid and is now reclaiming. I'd hazard a guess that the last time Jake looked this pleased with himself, he was at his mother's teat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Complicated: But Not Complicated Enough | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

...short, you are the definition of a moral hazard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...says at one point, "I am not half of something looking for the other half." She's been married and divorced twice. She also says, "I keep my guard up along with my underpants." So she's careful about sexual connections with guys because to her it represents a hazard. She likes working for herself. She's persistent. She's curious. She's not above breaking and entering if she thinks she can do it without getting caught. Loves to lie - oh, she's so good at that, and kind of takes pride in it, you know. Eats bad food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mystery Writer Sue Grafton | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...FDIC-insured funds from the retail-banking division to indirectly finance excessive risk-taking. The retail bank’s customers will not transfer their deposits to a safer institution because they know that the FDIC will compensate them in the event of a bank failure. This moral hazard encourages further mergers between retail and investment banks, which in turn begets more institutions that are “too big to fail.” When excess risk gets a conglomerate bank into trouble, the bill goes to—you guessed it—the taxpayers...

Author: By Anthony P. Dedousis | Title: Too Big to Fail is Too Big | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...reality of Pakistan today was never far away. Owing to security concerns, the event had to be postponed twice, and the venue changed. A major sponsor pulled out just days before for unspecified reasons, reducing the organizers to a "shoestring budget," and prospective foreign buyers were asked not to hazard the journey. But cancellation was never an option. "When was the last time something wrong was not happening in this country?" Deepak Perwani, the longtime enfant terrible of Pakistani fashion, says with gruff insouciance. "I mean, really. Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Week Comes to Pakistan Amid Mayhem | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

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