Thus a Treasury bond yield will not be the appropriate measure; something much more risky (and higher-yielding) will be needed.
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.
So here's an opportunity to pick up something no more risky than a Treasury but, for anybody in the 30% tax bracket, with a considerably better income stream.
Behind the stunt was something more promising and risky, an ambition not to follow a composer's structures but to rearrange them into a structure of his own.
Since his debut as host in 2005, he has evolved into something of an anti-Leno, trading the rapid-fire delivery of canned topical jokes cooked up in a writers' room for something more idiosyncratic and risky: a loopy, seemingly ad-libbed monologue in which he talks with, not at, the audience.
The relationship between Mr Obama and his supporters had matured, you see, from a passionate affair to something more significant.It was a risky approach that appears cold in print.
On 30 September, however, Beijing tried something different and a lot more risky.
An overtly political, religious, or opinion message as your cover photo will send a very strong signal one that may or may not be appreciated, and certainly more risky than something geared more to your personality than your beliefs.
