For a flat fee of $14.95 a month the firm assesses his tolerance for investment risk and helps him construct a portfolio of investments using exchange-traded funds that he can buy through any discount broker.
One wonders if the number of secrets entrusted to Blackwater, or, if we must call it that, Xe, partly explains the government's tolerance for the firm, to which it continues to give work.
Which is better for a fearful, high-strung child — a parent who coddles the child and says everything will be all right, or a parent who sets firm, strict limits and has no tolerance for skittishness?
At Cleary, Mark Leddy, the firm's managing partner, said that the firm did not attract — and had no tolerance for — lawyers with huge egos and sharp elbows.
"We have zero tolerance for any behaviour of this nature," said Abbas Hussain, the UK pharmaceutical firm's Asia Pacific business head.
"They don't have the tolerance for risk," said Kevin Aratari, managing director of the Los Angeles-based ad firm Mocean.
Shareholders and board directors have less and less tolerance for major art expenditures, according to Princeton University economist Orley Ashenfelter, who noted that "firms, especially when the economy starts to sour, recognize their need to stick to their core business".
Different tolerance for risk?
Zero tolerance for cheaters!
Zero tolerance for frivolities.
