Word: high-risk
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That big, high-risk investment will only come down with the development of better technology. Gawell sees Icelandic investments abroad as an important way to develop the sector: "Icelanders have been a significant part of making the strategic investments you need to make this happen...
...cheaper version of the ANA, which benefits from several more months worth of training, and better weapons. Major General Robert Cone, the U.S. commander in charge of building the Afghan security forces, defends the program, pointing out that the ANA is still too small to tie brigades down to high-risk districts when the mobile forces are required to clear other insecure areas. Instead, police districts that have gone through FDD are paired with U.S. military mentor teams that are able to provide back up and call in air support. "My goal is to keep small numbers of westerners...
...physical aggression among kids," Boivin notes, but most children manage to adjust socially and eventually develop the verbal skills needed to negotiate peacefully within a group. "Aggression becomes less and less of a normative way to get things done," he says. But children on the high-risk path appear unable to develop those social skills; their aggression ends up turning on them. "As children get older, in grade school, they slowly shift their aggression and tend to withdraw into shyness," Boivin said...
...very smart Wall Street types managed to create a shadow banking system to finance more aggressive, risky and profitable investments, including novel vehicles based on the bad home loans peddled mostly (although not exclusively) by nonbank mortgage firms. (The government-sponsored Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bought into the high-risk innovations of the shadow banking system around 2005 by buying a bunch of now-toxic mortgage-backed securities...
...Wyss is not afraid to underwrite high-risk research...