Each potential innovator faces a large upside, but also a high degree of risk. If the innovation is successful, its pioneer reaps a large gain, as does society at large.

This confluence of economic incentives to take on risk makes bank managers poor guardians of financial safety. They surely do not want their bank to fail but, if the potential upside is large enough, it is a risk they may find worth taking.

2. risk measures of potential impact

Warren Buffet showed another way, in providing equity to Goldman Sachs. By issuing preferred shares with warrants (options), one reduces the public s downside risk and ensures that they participate in some of the upside potential.

Upside down

Rotated Upside Down

We're upside down.

Everything's upside down.

It does however create a potential and unpredictable risk for consensual business transactions.

Working in conjunction with risk management software, the sensor system was reducing the risk of potential environmental contamination from hydrocarbon spillage.

Turn image upside down

And then, because I'm looking for the upside here, I've got to have believable upside.

You're holding the book upside down. This is upside down and this is right side up.

Global Warming s Upside Down Narrative

The thing is upside down!

See the boat's upside down.

The American World Turned Upside Down

She hung the picture upside down.

This is the world upside down.

(d) The potential risk to human health or the environment by such abandoned ships, if any

Existential risk is a threat to human survival, or to the long term potential of our species.

Why not learn to fly upside down?

Everything here has been turned upside down.

It's all upside down, every which way.

The risk was that potential savings might not be identified, while the sale price determined could be inadequate.

Internal displacement on a large scale is a potential risk, particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

To me, attempting to discern the economic prospects for 2011 is not a particularly interesting question the answer is bleak, with little upside potential and a lot of downside risk. More importantly, how long will it take Europe and America to recover, and can Asia s seemingly export dependent economies continue to grow if their historical markets languish?

And when the Graves are turned upside down

And when the Graves are turned upside down

It turns me inside out and upside down.

Mother, the book you're reading is upside down.

However, anything you can do to decrease the risk of potential carcinogens can definitely increase the quality of lifestyle.

The Program had been expanded to include sites in Mexico to identify areas of high potential malarial transmission risk.

How do you do that? That's water upside down.

(a calamitous Event) that shall turn things upside down

(a calamitous Event) that shall turn things upside down

But like DIYbio, the positive outcomes and the potential for good for a study like that far outweighs the risk.

Given the large number of institutions at risk, preventative measures, which are focused on potential perpetrators, are of special importance.

The existing business model allows them to take the upside when they win, and hand over the downside to taxpayers when they lose. This encourages excessive risk and threatens repeated cycles of boom bust bailout.

Systemic risk is intrinsic to globalization. Greater openness and integration necessarily increase the potential for cascading crises and amplification of shocks.

The Panel considers that these features of the claims population give rise to a potential risk of overstatement of the claims.

They are a potential risk to the existing objects in the geostationary ring, in particular because of their higher relative velocity.

So here we have Penn and Teller, same upside down.

So, that's the upside. The circular mill is the downside.

But, turn this country upside down if you have to.