The least-risky possibility is a short-duration bond fund, which mimics the performance of short-term securities and has a heavy emphasis on residential mortgage-backed securities.
That eliminates other, riskier possibilities of making the playoffs, including having to beat a tough Ravens team in Baltimore on the final weekend of the season.
Debt from Greece, Ireland and Portugal is considered risky, raising the possibility that the central bank could suffer losses that exceeded the amount of its capital.
Hakim Chalabi, former team physician for French club Paris Saint-Germain, says that fasting can be risky, increasing the possibility of injury because of dehydration.
Although hysterectomy is still the recommended treatment for placenta accreta [ 17– 19], when placenta percreta involves adjacent structures, the bleeding might be severe, and surgery is very risky, with the possibility of damage to these structures due to the morbidly adherent placenta [ 4, 20].
This is what makes continued rolling risky - the possibility of making more points must be weighed with the risk of losing everything you've earned so far during your turn.
At the beginning of "Sexy Beast" a boulder rolls down a Spanish hillside and crashes into the hero's swimming pool -- a metaphor for the further bad luck about to ensue, but also for the reckless, risky, self-destructive possibilities of filmmaking.
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It's a risky endeavor, given the possibility that everyone will show up.
An individual mortgage to a home buyer with poor credit might have been considered risky, because of the possibility of default; but packaging lots of mortgages together limited risk, the theory went, because it was unlikely many would default at the same time.
Not a white-tiled, fume-cupboarded version, full of fridges and test tubes, but something far more risky: a space of possibility and danger, of bodies anatomised on tables, of darkness and false sight, bare wires and sulphur; and, in the dark, appearing from beyond the curtain, a vision of something, a creature – a human – that may well be the real "double" of the theatre: ourselves.
