I put an arm around her shoulders, risking a diplomatic incident, and asked what the matter was.
They prefer, as before the crisis, to shoulder risk in return for more yield.
The financial system is not doing its job of shouldering risk and channelling credit to those who need it.
One school of thought about stock investing says that investors are hoping to be paid for shouldering risk.
The government's role in the housing bubble of shouldering risk from lenders and encouraging or restricting lenders is similar in the housing bubble.
"Money has simply vanished," said Mark Urman, an independent-film veteran, speaking of the financial drought that has pushed producers and directors into shouldering risks that only a few years ago were carried by a more robust field of distributors.
Once seen primarily as support troops, they have become a multiservice corps of experts regarded by fellow service members as shouldering risks to keep others alive, and to keep a fearsome weapon often at bay.
And many young students are warned rightly not to carry heavy backpacks across one shoulder, risking muscle strain and spinal injury.
In the event, Mr Draghi said only 20% of the new asset purchases would require national central banks to shoulder risks outside their own borders.
Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
