By funding risky stuff, Chu added, DOE hoped to emulate the Pentagon's DARPA agency, which he said "took high risks, [and] expected failures".
Clark and Clark counter this argument by noting that people take high risk jobs such as working in mines or joining the military for the money.
High risk patients were defined as; those taking multiple medications, those who had medication changes during admission, those suspected of poor adherence, those taking high risk or complex medications and those with multiple medical conditions.
He took high-risk action to bring the current fragile peace to Northern Ireland, created legislatures there and in Wales and Scotland, established London's first elected mayor, paid back debt, passed a minimum wage, started a new work program for unemployed youth, and began reforming the House of Lords.
In the long run, high returns are available only in exchange for taking high risks.
But the coalition that takes on the terrorists has to actually send in people with guns and that means taking high risks".
The dealers may take high risks, knowing that they will share in the profits, but that the banks will bear the losses".
For this bear market has confirmed one of the oldest truths of investment: high returns are to be made only by taking high risks.
Sky said she did not feel in danger – the people she relied upon to keep her safe on her trips into the city's underworld were taking high risks too.
He aims to show that senior managers at Société Générale share responsibility for the losses because they nurtured a culture where taking high risks was tacitly encouraged as long as it was profitable.
To reach scale, impact investors will need to continue to take high risks on new business ideas and – just like venture capital – see lots of failures scattered among an emerging landscape of breakthrough successes.
