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...sobered by the responsibility. His word to me was 'blessed.' It will be riskier with a 26-year-old, but Joshua has matured a lot in the past year. Part of Obama's appeal in the campaign was to that younger generation. I think he wants to engage that community now." - Rev. Joel Hunter, a pastor based in Longwood, Fla., who says DuBois' experience with grass-roots outreach could serve as a counterweight to his short resume. (Washington Times...
...subjects were told that if program A were adopted, 200 people would be saved and 400 would die, and that if program B were adopted, there would be a one-third probability that all 600 would live and a two-thirds probability that all would die. Program B is riskier: you might save everyone, but you'll probably kill everyone...
...water a few times now. USBancorp, I think, will be a survivor and will thrive. But we've got quarters of difficulty. The hardest part of this is figuring out when people will start looking beyond the near-term. We've tried to take small steps into the riskier stuff. We ended up buying Bank of America again, since that worked out so well for us last year, but a smaller piece. The round-trip hasn't worked well, and we've lost some, but at these prices, if the thing survives, you could easily see a six-times return...
...Israeli troops encircle Gaza City, their commanders are faced with a painful dilemma: How far must they advance into the deadly labyrinth of slums and refugee camps where Hamas militants await with booby-trapped houses and snipers? With each passing day, Israel's war against Hamas grows riskier and more punishing, with the gains appearing to diminish compared to the spiraling costs - to Israel's moral stature, to the lives of Palestinian civilians and to the world's hopes that an ancient conflict can ever be resolved. Ideally, in a war shaped by television images, Israelis would like a tableau...
Bernstein: Well, that could be anything from very high quality bonds as opposed to, kind of, the junk that has been sold over the last several years and performed well. It could be the stocks of high quality companies as opposed to the riskier stuff. Our focus is on sustainable and demonstrable growth...