The reports suggest that jittery consumers are flocking to rock-bottom prices and to little else — a boon for discount stores like Wal-Mart and Best Buy and trouble for higher-end chains, like Nordstrom and Abercrombie & Fitch, which are averse to discounting.
However, the euro area is a large currency zone where the euro is well-established as a unit of account, and a central bank which is strongly averse to inflation; therefore, the "flight to quality" may produce opposite effects, namely, strengthening of the euro and price deflation.
Public sector outsourcing so far, in sectors like rail operation in the UK, reveals a private sector which is risk averse, reluctant to commit investment and unlikely to experiment in socially desirable ways; while private sector capital is hardly necessary if governments at various levels can borrow and do so more cheaply than the private sector.
The boss's desire for behind-the-desk control also means lots of paperwork, which Don is averse to.
The Florida House, which is generally more averse to gambling than the Senate, has done nothing with the bill.
Unsurprisingly, the former Chicago Bull's visit, along with three current Harlem Globetrotters and a crew from "Vice," the HBO "news magazine series" that arranged the trip, was extensively covered on North Korean state television, which is no more averse to reporting on staged events as news than the producers of the American reality television shows Mr. Rodman now gets paid to spice up.
This is a bad sign for Broadway, which is already risk-averse.
Such responses are often considered "protest" responses in which the respondent is averse to the premise of the valuation task and therefore refuses to trade any risk of death for improved health, or are expressions of extreme risk aversion or a lack of sensitivity of the instrument[ 11, 14, 15].
Which is not to say Hurley was averse to chasing nurses and drinking — women Hooper spoke with described him as a sleaze.
"Business investment has picked up nicely in the US, but UK companies remain extremely risk averse, which is sapping strength from the economy," Spencer said.
