"So I figured, why not copy ourselves?" Endemol could have made a handsome, risk-free return by simply licensing the formats to producers in other countries, raking in a fee of 4% to 8% of production costs.
But options, it turned out, encouraged managers to take unduly big risks, as long as they showed handsome short-term profits.
Worse yet is Moon Bloodgood (Blair Williams), who's primary jobs are to look hot, get rescued by a strong handsome man, then risk all of humanity in order to save said stud whom she barely knows.
Tall, blond, handsome and a risk-taker nearly from birth, he was a college track star and into surfing before, and long after, the Beach Boys.
Andrew Hagger, personal finance expert at Moneycomms.co.uk, says: "You could make a handsome profit, but also risk losing all your capital".
Congress has a chance, starting this week, to end the boondoggle that allows private lenders to earn a handsome subsidy for making risk-free student loans that are guaranteed by the federal government.
We next see him as a handsome, angry, emotional, fearless, risk-taking teenager who rashly gets into a fight.
Reassured by somnolent credit-rating agencies, which backed the bankers' vision of handsome returns at virtually no risk, investors piled in with no due diligence to speak of.
Certainly, talented people from all corners of the media world were recruited for the venture, paid handsome amounts for taking the risks associated with jumping into the unknown.
On horseback, the only place the teachers had any privacy, they weighed the comparative merits of the two men: Carpenter, a witty, intellectual risk-taker; Perry, handsome, steady, and more traditionally gallant.
When Edward Kennedy announced in 1962, "Like so many others acquainted with the president's exuberant, handsome, wild-eyed, hard-drinking, risk-loving youngest brother, I felt the Kennedys were pushing it".
