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Her husband, Bill, had a very different attitude toward risk.

For Gardner, the Challenger accident had no bearing on the attitude toward risk.

If men spent as much time being caretakers as women, their attitude toward risk might be different, too."

Anna Fisher has always prided herself on her honest, unvarnished attitude toward risk.

And so, as social scientists know from studying attitudes toward risk, some people will be scared away from planes into cars for their next trip.

"It's a Texan's attitude toward risk, reward and failure I'm talking about.

UNDER the new rules, capital requirements will move away from the one-size-fits-all attitude toward risk assessment.

The lawsuits do make downloading riskier, but a major component of youthful experimentation is a liberal attitude toward risk that mellows over time.

Tolerance for inequalities and the growing demand for redistribution, attitudes toward risk, and over property rights vs human rights, set the stage.

Although it is impossible to model attitudes toward risk if one doesn't quantify utility, the theory should not be interpreted as measuring strength of preference under certainty.

Their attitudes toward risk, the production possibility set, and the set of available trades determine the equilibrium quantities and prices of assets that are traded.

Based on what she called the couple's moderately conservative attitude toward risk, Ms. Wagner assembled a mutual fund portfolio of three parts stocks to one part bonds.

Each assessment on surgery, doctors say, will be a personal one, based on a patient's age and health, how dependent the patient is on the device and the patient's attitudes toward risk.

"Antitrust Penalties and Attitudes Toward Risk: An Economic Analysis," (with Kenneth G. Elzinga) Harvard Law Review, February, 1973.

THE British have shown that they can switch quickly to a combat-ready stance and that they have a tough-minded attitude toward risk - that casualties are unfortunate but go with the job.

The venture capitalists advertised themselves as the great financial risk-takers of Silicon Valley, but you could learn everything you needed to know about their attitudes toward risk simply by driving up Sand Hill Road.

They have rights to exercise agency in their own lives and to participate as members of their communities and societies, and these rights trump other concerns such as general attitudes toward risk containment in society [9].

It's a sign of how attitudes toward risk have changed in little more than a decade that seasoned executives and financial managers now readily join groups to put $200,000 to $1 million behind people with ideas and a sense of adventure.

So small businesses tend to adopt what Amar Bhidé, a professor of business at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, called a "heads I win, tails I don't lose much" attitude toward risk.

Instead, you need to look at the transformation in investors' attitudes toward risk-"the explosion in the risk premium"-to see how a bank can go from reasonably stable to being in desperate need of a bailout in less than a year.

"Massey's cavalier attitude toward risk and callous disregard for the safety of its employees has exacted a horrible cost on dozens of hard-working miners and their loved ones," DiNapoli said in a public statement reported by Reuters and others.