According to the state-of-the-art Harvard/Berkman Institute report, the main risk faced by minors on the Internet is bullying, not sexual predation.
It does highlight the main risk facing the euro zone, however: that politicians across an economically struggling and politically unstable periphery may not be able to keep their countries marching to Berlin's beat until growth finally resumes.
Alcohol remains the main risk-factor faced by paramedics, despite high-profile attention on drugs such as methamphetamines, particularly ice.
Yet even as a dearth of dealmaking has slowed one part of the legal business, there is booming demand for litigation and regulatory lawyers who are preparing banks for another year of fines and lawsuits.The main legal risk facing big international banks relates to a widening scandal over attempts to rig benchmark interest rates, including the London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR.
Unlike in America and Europe, where crippled banking systems and high debts blunt the impact of low interest rates, Asia, especially China, is awash with liquidity, which will support domestic spending (see article).Perhaps the main risk now facing emerging Asia is not feeble demand in the West but inflation or asset-price bubbles at home.
If that were not bad enough, the Securities and Exchange Commission, America's main markets watchdog, also said it was conducting an informal inquiry that is likely to focus on what the company told investors about the risks facing users of the drug.
This fact is what motivates this study to analyze the factors explaining the slow adoption process among small-scale farmers, where the main focus is on the importance of differences in production risk faced by small versus large farmers.
The main risk adidas faces, says Erwan Rambourg, an analyst at HSBC, is that its heavy spending to gain market share in America and China does not pay off.
There are two main risks transportation investments face.
