These variables (Table 1) included demographic controls (sex, age, civil status, education, primary language spoken), health status (self-rated health), and occupational factors (self-employed, full-time employed, occupation, job prestige, risk of unemployment).
For other eight aspects (better observing the landscape, parking, speed, prestige, effort, risk of accidents, risk of being assaulted and exposure to sun and rain) the general attitude is negative.
Expectations for success have been low, but collapse at this early stage would be a grave blow to US prestige and risk a slide into violence on the ground.
The leader of Australia's political opposition, Tony Abbott, suggested that Ms. Gillard's Labor government was too close to the unions involved and was putting the country's prestige at risk.
There are statistically significant differences related to gender, family situation, prestige orientation, risk attitude, income orientation and effort tolerance.
The answers to these two questions were expected to depend on differences in respondent characteristics such as gender and family situation (marital status and having children), as well as differences in personality traits such as prestige orientation, risk attitude and orientation towards high income, status and work efforts.
When certainty associated with a payment system increased, its appeal rose for women and individuals who are less prestige-oriented, risk-tolerant or effort-tolerant.
Washington's switch was tougher, because it risked prestige.
De Gaulle would not risk his prestige on an unsuccessful venture.
Until very recently the White House had hesitated to risk American prestige in Mideast diplomatic efforts that had no guarantee of success.
In an interview in Proceso in April, he said he invited civilians to join but "many of them are not willing to risk their prestige, nor their lives".
