By contrast, China may be best avoided while it struggles to control its runaway growth; Taiwan is too exposed to a faltering technology industry; and South Korea remains mired in credit-card debt.For industries rather than countries, manufacturers, particularly exporters, are likely to stay squeezed between slowing revenues and rising costs.
In fact the troubles in the credit markets began in part at Bear Stearns last year, when two of its hedge funds, heavily exposed to mortgage securities, faltered.
Others such as Scot McKnight, a professor of theology at North Park University in Chicago, said they welcomed the renewed discussion of one of the hardest issues in Christianity — can a loving God really be so wrathful toward people who faltered, or never were exposed to Jesus?
If France's AAA rating is pulled into doubt because of the capital needs of its banks, which are heavily exposed to peripheral euro zone debt, the entire rescue strategy could falter.
Among infants exposed to HIV- infection in utero, during birth, or postnatally through breastfeeding, growth faltering or failure is now recognized as early markers of HIV infection, disease progression and as a prognostic tool for survival [ 7, 8].
Australia's central bank warned in April that if Chinese demand faltered, Australia's real estate market could suffer and the country's banking system, heavily exposed to home mortgages, could be harmed.
But if the economy falters, tech stocks won't be a safe haven for investors, even if they are cash-rich and not as exposed to the credit debacle as companies in other sectors.
[Marc] was exposed to that.
Animals are exposed to predators.
