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.

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.

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

Rotated 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.

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?

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

Global Warming s Upside Down Narrative

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

The American World Turned Upside Down

She hung the picture upside down.

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

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

Why not learn to fly upside down?

Everything here has been turned upside down.

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.

And when the Graves are turned upside down

And when the Graves are turned upside down

Both may be put at risk by adverse living conditions, neglect, insensitive or abusive treatment and restricted opportunities for realizing human potential.

On the question of exceptional risk, the declaration by the General Assembly or Security Council, which should constitute the basis for the trigger mechanism, should include measures to address exceptional risk, both actual and potential.

This new round of central bank activism reflects persistent concerns about economic growth. Despite a once unthinkable amount of monetary stimulus, global output remains well below potential, with the potential itself at risk of being suppressed.

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

The continued presence of organized and armed militias poses a major security risk that has the potential to disrupt the entire peace process.

Having put in place all feasible risk mitigation options, risk management moves towards finding ways to reduce the severity of potential loss and damage and often implies establishing safety and emergency response teams, technologies and procedures.

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

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

However, small ads magazines and newspapers do carry advertisements for escort agencies, a sector where there is a potential risk of trafficking in women.

The upside means that if you're telling me that you're going to be out there, five years out, making a million dollars a year hmm. That's not really upside.

The Government of Lithuania understands the potential risk of international terrorism and believes that collective efforts to prevent terrorism minimize the possibility of terrorist attacks.

It's got to be upside, and it's got to be believable.

Here's the word mirror. No, it's not the same upside down.

So this work is a caricature of an upside down man.

And this is where I believe neoconservatism had it upside down.

It is He who turned upside down the people of Lot

It is He who turned upside down the people of Lot

Having said this, there would be immediate upside potential, owing to better resource allocation, more harmonized investment regimes, stronger standards, and the elimination of outdated non tariff and regulatory barriers. Aerospace, auto manufacturing, biotechnology, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals are among the sectors that stand to gain.

Turned it upside down, experimented with the shell, experimented with the head.

The risk of chemical weapons proliferation looms ever larger, particularly in view of the potential for terrorists to acquire chemical weapons and the materials for their production.

Especially when they're upside down, you're engaging that general facial recognition software there.