The shows that fail cost the networks tens of millions of dollars, and spectacular risks often backfire even more spectacularly.
If they take spectacular physical risks, as when awkward Amy W. tries to surf, it's impressive.
The financial entities of this great nation — both banks and less regulated or unregulated entities — took wild, spectacular, immoral risks with credit.
In the most memorable sequence a fully clothed Peck finds himself in a shower stall with the villain's treacherous mistress (Sophia Loren) and must keep his eyes and mind off Loren's spectacular nudity or risk revealing his presence.
Instead, most of these firms have taken on spectacular amounts of risk without acknowledging the scale of their bets to the outside world, or even, it now seems, to themselves.
This leads us to hypothesise that anatomic differences in immunologic control of HPV-harbouring target cells explains the spectacular differences in risk for HPV-associated malignancies.
All these factors, very few of them mutually exclusive, conspired to make possible skyrocketing leverage, misperceived risk, and spectacular collapse.
"BP will put this spectacular marine park at risk and, if they're given approval, there are several other companies lining up behind them.
At his tale's end, readers may not care whether he's finished up or down, but they will have gotten a colorful glimpse of the sometimes sordid, sometimes spectacular capital of capital risk.
People generally exaggerate spectacular but low-probability risks, such as murder or natural disaster, just as they underestimate more common risks, such as accidents in the home.In this case, adds Kip Viscusi, an economist at the Harvard Law School, Americans face a new sort of risk and people do not know how to evaluate something they have never seen before.
