Word: high-risk
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Entering and leaving the house is a particularly high-risk activity, which is why some experts suggest removing any doorsills higher than 1/2 in. If the steps are bare wood, you can increase traction by applying nonslip treads...
...throw billions of dollars at a big new idea, in this case the Internet. That funding gave everyone with a business plan the ability to test it. Now we're finding out which plans work best. This shakeout was as unavoidable as it is brutal--and the reason high-risk investing is best left to those who can afford to lose. The problem is that people who couldn't afford to lose gambled anyway...
Spread betting first hove into view in the mid-1970s, when a British sports bookmaker--betting is legal in Britain--devised an esoteric, high-risk means of gambling on the future of market indices. Instead of betting the fixed odds of a victory, a fan can bet the point spread on a vast array of future movements; today bets can be made on just about any indicator, including indices, share prices, currencies and commodities. Though spread betting occasionally looks the same as dabbling in futures markets, typically the bets are smaller and more specialized, an attraction for the individual investor...
...high demand and low supply of flu vaccine this season, University Health Services (UHS) will be offering the preventative treatment to high-risk patients only...
...felt uneasy about having just walk-in care without taking care of high-risk patients first," Rosenthal said...