Malcolm's wealth, often scoffed at by both old money and the newly envious, was accumulated by his own hard work and by prodigious risk-taking.
His gaucho clothes, his high rhetorical manner, his refusal of payment for fighting, his habit of withdrawing from public view for long periods, even his "skill in producing displays of prodigious courage" (risking his life, she means), were all calculated P.R. ploys.
By combining debt and derivatives, the banks created a new machine that could originate and distribute prodigious quantities of risk to a baffling array of counterparties.This system worked; indeed, at its simplest, it still does, spreading risk, promoting economic efficiency and providing cheap capital.
And why did a man of such prodigious talents repeatedly risk his career for a bit of illicit pleasure?He also clearly has the talent necessary to do the telling.
"It's almost all based on these two books, two books not based on a job of prodigious research or risking one's life as a reporter in Iraq.
Why embark on a project with prodigious levels of technical risk and work and then end up making fewer returns?
Even in Silicon Valley, where confidence abounds, Mr. Musk's appetite for risk is unusually prodigious.
That was a gamble, since Coelho, a Californian who had risen to majority whip largely on the strength of his prodigious fund-raising, had left Congress under a cloud 10 years ago, and risked further marking Gore as the insiders' candidate.
Addicts are known for the prodigious logic they supply for patently irrational behavior; if the sickness of the culture is contagious, Pinsky, too, is at risk, and his mode of clinical outreach is potentially exploitation in denial.
Prodigious activities beckoned.
His philanthropy was prodigious.
