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  Risky Business : Home
Risky Business is an Australian Research Council Linkage Project -- a collaborative research effort across academic disciplines and policy portfolios including the School of Creative Arts; Department of Criminology; Language, Literacy and Arts Education at The University of Melbourne and key industry stakeholders in juvenile justice and the arts.
Risky Business is a longitudinal study to identify effective diversionary programs for young people experiencing some difficulties in their lives and to analyse the potential impact of the creative arts to assist them and to reconnect them with their community.
Risky Business aims to provide justice and social agencies with a model for effective youth program planning that will facilitate re-education and work opportunities.
www.sca.unimelb.edu.au /riskybusiness/Home.html   (1115 words)

  
 Arkcity.net: Community - Risky business 07/22/06
Potential entrepreneurs for Arkansas City businesses should be competent in three areas, said Yazmin Wood, president and CEO of the Arkansas City Area Chamber of Commerce.
A lack of knowledge of the target audience for a business can lead to failure, she said.
The reasons such businesses have failed in the past are complex.
www.arkcity.net /stories/072206/com_0002.shtml   (929 words)

  
 Risky Business   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Many business leaders agree that education must align to a whole new economic model, one based on the new wealth creators of innovation and technological advance.
Instead, some of the smarter business schools and companies are emphasizing service sciences, a potentially potent blend of computer science, operations research, industrial engineering, business strategy, psychology, management sciences, social and cognitive sciences, and legal sciences to develop the skills required in a services-led economy.
Some business leaders believe the only way to effect real change is to get down in the trenches with the kids to teach them entrepreneurialism and business smarts.
www.edutopia.org /magazine/ed1article.php?id=Art_1497&issue=apr_06   (2654 words)

  
 Risky Business: Private Management of Public Schools
Business firms seeking such business are startups that have yet to demonstrate expertise.
Although contracting out to business concerns is older than the Republic, education developed in the United States as a service produced by government, not merely financed by it.
A related issue is the contractors responsibility and integrity, qualities that are important in business relationships where trust, informal agreements, and continuous refining of the arrangement are crucial supplements to formal, written contracts.
www.epinet.org /content.cfm/books_riskybizintro   (3514 words)

  
 Risky Business Trivia Game FAQ
Risky Business is a high-speed trivia question and answer game where up to 20 people can challenge other players on their knowledge of people, places, events, and things.
Finally, the last addition to the line of Risky Business games is #Einstein, which aims to be a game with more of an academic basis for its questions.
New players to Risky Business might consider starting on StarLink or DALnet, as they are much smaller and tend to be friendlier than the EFnet.
www.eingang.org /Games/riskybus.html   (4875 words)

  
 State: Risky business
Because businesses claim them as credits, deductions or exemptions on their tax returns, which are confidential, these tax breaks often fall outside the scrutiny of the public and even state legislators.
And in Ohio, small businesses convinced a U.S. appeals court last year that a tax incentive given to DaimlerChrysler was discriminatory and unconstitutional.
"For these programs to be effective incentives, businesses using them must not feel that their detailed records are being exposed to public dissemination where they will be available for their competitors to see," the governor's trade office wrote in a report to the Legislature in 2001.
www.sptimes.com /2005/04/10/State/Risky_business.shtml   (4104 words)

  
 Risky Business - Money & Business (usnews.com)
Her focus is small businesses in small towns, but many of her insights apply to any small business.
More owners and managers of small food and beverage businesses indicated, during the first quarter of 2008, that they are planning to increase hiring during the next 12 months and expect an increase in employees versus their 2007 statistics, according to the latest Small Business Research Board (SBRB) study released here [Buffalo Grove, Ill.] today.
The Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council recently announced that any state that enacts something like the Free Choice Act will get negative points in the SBE Council's yearly index of how healthy the climate in certain states is for small businesses and entrepreneurs to thrive.
www.usnews.com /blogs/risky-business/index.html   (1389 words)

  
 Risky Business - Entrepreneur.com
Getting business insurance used to be a matter of filling out an application and sending in a check for the first month's premium.
Fifteen percent of small businesses don't purchase business insurance to protect their enterprises, according to the Insurance Information Institute (III).
Business owners are engaging in protracted negotiations with insurance companies, including detailing actions they're taking to reduce the risk of being sued if an acquisition goes awry.
www.entrepreneur.com /management/insurance/article61920.html   (804 words)

  
 Risky Business - Business Travel - Feature Articles - Portfolio.com
Doing business internationally sometimes means putting yourself at risk for an illegal detention or a terrorist attack, corporate kidnapping, disease outbreak, or natural disaster.
In many countries, kidnapping is a profitable business that is carried out with police assistance, and foreign employees of multinational corporations are regarded as conduits to their firms' coffers.
As a young executive in the 1970s, Allan Eyre was incarcerated overnight while on business in Egypt, after a hotel clerk's demand for money in exchange for his room key prompted a flippant remark about the country.
www.portfolio.com /business-travel/features/2007/03/25/Risky-Business   (1497 words)

  
 The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog
We've been so busy running around and hitting screenings these last few days that we haven't had time to do what we like to do -- post reactions to those screenings.
And yet the business is on the cusp of a major transition.
Risky Biz blog takes a deep, daily look at the film industry's ups, downs and deals from around the world and the heart of Hollywood.
reporter.blogs.com /risky   (9418 words)

  
 Reno Air Show and Unlimited Air Racing Home of Risky Business and Bad Attitude
Risky Business has been known for many years (more than 15 years) as a tough air racing competitor at the Reno Air Races.
Risky Business, a "North American p51 Mustang" and Bad Attitude, a "Hawker Sea Fury" have been two of the Reno Air Races best showing unlimited air race air show favorites.
Risky Business and Bad Attitude are based in Jerome, Id. Stop by and see us after the air races and air shows.
www.unlimitedair.com   (223 words)

  
 FDIC: Putting Your Home on the Loan Line is a Risky Business
The cost of doing business with high-cost lenders can be excessive and, sometimes, downright abusive.
For example, certain lenders--often called "predatory lenders"--target homeowners who have low incomes or credit problems or who are elderly by deceiving them about loan terms or giving them loans they cannot afford to repay.
Borrowing from an unscrupulous lender, especially one who offers you a high-cost loan using your home as security, is risky business.
www.fdic.gov /consumers/consumer/predatorylending   (1898 words)

  
 The Standard - China's Business Newspaper
The timeshare industry's advance on the mainland comes against the backdrop of an inadequate legal system that tends to favor local business interests and an incomplete transition from communist state control to private land ownership.
The two, dominant players in the global timeshare business and both units of US-based travel conglomerates, run membership clubs that allow timeshare owners to trade usage rights bought at one resort for stays at others around the world.
RCI and Interval are out to make China timesharing safe in order to better present mainland resorts to their international members and, more importantly, bring Chinese travelers into the companies' worldwide network of holiday destinations.
www.thestandard.com.hk /weekend_news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=9822&sid=6207633&con_type=3&d_str=20060114   (1728 words)

  
 Thunderbird - The Garvin School of International Management
The 15 Afghanistan women who took part in Thunderbird’s Project Artemis departed from the two-week seminar ready to start new business and impart what they learned to other businesswomen in the war-torn nation.
Thunderbird’s unique Oath of Honor was presented and discussed with leading management scholars, business executives, civil-society leaders and government policy makers from around the world at a joint UN Global Compact and Academy of Management conference.
The start of Thunderbird’s fall trimester marked a return to a language policy that means that every MBA who graduates from the School will be able to speak a second language.
thunderbird.edu /about_us/publications/tbird_mag/vol54_no_3/risky.htm   (298 words)

  
 CNN.com - Upcoming show: Risky business - May 17, 2005
CNN finds out what risky business really means for the executive.
There is an element of risk in all business activities, especially if you want a high return.
When traveling to a potentially risky place, corruption is the most obvious thing that comes to mind.
edition.cnn.com /2005/TRAVEL/05/17/bt.upcoming.show/index.html   (447 words)

  
 Risky Business : Industrial Market Trends
Just when I thought the manufacturing community was moving in the right direction by focusing on product innovation (or at least talking about it), along comes news of yet another IT category that is sure to keep CIOs distracted while draining their tech budgets.
In the same article, Gemmer elaborates on his ERM beliefs saying that it helps companies prepare for events on the scale of a 9/11, but more important, improves the way a company handles the more predictable risks on a daily basis.
It appears that ERM is the ugly spawn of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which in turn, was created thanks to the naughty business behavior of companies like Enron, Worldcomm and Haliburton.
news.thomasnet.com /IMT/archives/2006/02/risky_business.html   (747 words)

  
 RISKY BUSINESS at HOLLYWOOD TEEN MOVIES
When "Risky Business" arrived on cinema screens in 1983 it proved to be a teenage comedy with a difference.
Tom had already appeared in "Taps", "Losin it" and "The Outsiders", but it was "Risky Business" that catapulted him from actor to superstar.
This would have to be the signature scene of "Risky Business", it is often replayed on talk shows whenever the film is discussed.
www.hollywoodteenmovies.com /RISKYBUSINESS.html   (578 words)

  
 Risky Business Movie -The 80s Rewind «
As the movie goes on though, he is taken through a sequence of events that drag him ever deeper on a whirlwind ride into the underground 'business' of 'personal services' from which the viewer wonders if he will ever recover...
Don't forget that Risky Business is now available to order on Widescreen DVD using our special 80s Retro Assistant...
Rock goddess Stevie Nicks loved 'Risky Business' so much she bought an exact replica of the Porsche used in the movie.
www.fast-rewind.com /riskybis.htm   (2109 words)

  
 Risky Business: Musicians
One of the better Tommy stories from the Risky Business years (he joined in 1992) was the time his car's trunk caught fire on the way to a job at Hoyt Farms Park.
With Risky Business he sings "Black is Black", "Personality", "Long Tall Glasses" and shares vocals with Ralph on "Let It Be Me".
He was the leader of Windjammer, a Long Island wedding band to which Tommy, Willie and Greg belonged before their long-time association with Risky Business.
www.risky-biz.com /music.html   (1682 words)

  
 Risky business - IT Security News - SC Magazine US
"Because we are a kind of a franchise business, lending our name to other businesses, we need to search end to end [for potential risk] -- not just at MasterCard -- to see what problems there are," he says.
Companies must prioritize the risks they face, using their own histories, threats and unique business endeavors to determine which dangers receive more resources.
Another tip is to present executives with information emphasizing how your proposed strategy fits into overall business and security plans, says Sanovic.
www.scmagazine.com /us/news/article/556841/risky+business   (1941 words)

  
 Risky business | | Guardian Unlimited Business
The point is that Germany and France, in particular, would be even stronger if they adopted more expansionary policies, and good corporate performance is not necessarily related to progress on the employment front - quite the reverse if policy actively inhibits the creation of new jobs.
At present there is much talk of a Merkel effect on the animal spirits of business people in Germany, and long may it last.
But raising interest rates at a time like this is a risky business, and, if anything, the stability and growth pact should be further relaxed in order to make sure the recovery is properly underpinned.
business.guardian.co.uk /economicdispatch/story/0,,1704627,00.html   (795 words)

  
 CNN.com - Going green a risky business - November 24, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: )
For Paul E. Metz and Klaus Milke, founders of a coalition of business lobbyists for environmental change, the conference offered a snapshot of how companies -- from multinational mammoths to small start-ups -- are warming to their cause of “sustainable business in a sustainable society.”
The business community is accustomed to being cast as bogeyman in the fight for greater environmental awareness.
Their four-year-old brainchild, the European Business Council for a Sustainable Energy Future, which also goes by the catchy slogan “e to the power of five”, sees itself as a mediator seeking common environmental ground between businesses, industry, interest groups and politicians.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/11/24/climate.business   (811 words)

  
 Risky Business-Latest Classic Movie Reviews-Spout
Risky Business is the film in which 19-year-old Tom Cruise dances around his living room in his underwear.
Alongside him, Rebecca De Mornay is equally stunning as the tempestuous and savvy call girl Lana, who convinces her young client to turn his parents' house into a brothel for the local high schoolers.
Beyond the acting though, Risky Business paints a tender and sophisticated portrait of sexual awakening and the experience of growing up.
www.spout.com /films/29034/default.aspx   (794 words)

  
 The real reason for the latest hedge-fund disaster. - By Henry Blodget - Slate Magazine
The bosses, eager to keep the gravy train rolling, let the trader make bigger, riskier bets (and, in this case, give him a reported $75 million to $100 million bonus and his own personal trading floor).
To head off concerns that they are taking big chances, the bosses extol their risk controls and "multi-strategy" expertise.
The way to keep your job and get rich in the hedge-fund business is to generate gains—on which you collect "success" fees that usually range from 20 percent to 50 percent.
www.slate.com /id/2150241   (1195 words)

  
 Risky Business (12/15/02)
The most recent assessment, conducted between last December and June, came as DLA was gearing up to support operations in Iraq that could dwarf the effort in Afghanistan.
While the Joint Chiefs praise DLA for its overall operations, the report's criticisms cut to the core of the agency's business transformation over the past 12 years from an operator of warehouses to overseer of just-in-time delivery contracts with suppliers.
William Kenny, executive director for business operations at Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, which handles medical supplies for DLA, says it is probably true that prime vendors can supply only about 80 percent of needed products.
www.govexec.com /features/1202/1202s3.htm   (2321 words)

  
 "Risky Business" : Articles : HEARTLIGHT® Magazine
You sing a solo at church, or you read a friend the poem you've been working on, or you agree to assume a leadership role in a new ministry.
You start a new business, or you confess a secret sin to your pastor, or you finally ask that special someone the question you've wanted to ask for months.
It's risky because the possibility of failure is real.
www.heartlight.org /articles/200406/20040610_risky.html   (719 words)

  
 Welcome | Risky Business SOS | Dr Gerard Hammond MacSOS
Risky Business SOS is an application that helps you to write, distribute and audit your work place operating procedures and manuals.
Risky Business SOS allows Hazards and Procedures in your workplace to be Identified, Controlled and Assessed for Risk.
The premise of Risky Business SOS is to present a minimal, "task-based" user interface to important Health and Safety Information.
www.macsos.com.au /riskybusinesssos   (376 words)

  
 RISKY Business | Yard & Garden | Find Articles at BNET.com
In the seven years Gannon has owned the business, sales have nearly tripled and profits continue to climb.
Bob's two sons eventually took over the business and split it down the middle.
He'd done plenty of business with Bob's Bikes over the years, and ended up buying out the son in charge of the power equipment division.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4443/is_200604/ai_n16350282   (1058 words)

  
 Risky Business | Fast Company
The GARP consensus is, riskier than they used to be.
More to the point, attendees argue, the profession must develop better measures of business risk that are relevant and understood across different sorts of activities.
Basically, that's the amount of capital that had to be put at risk to sustain a business.
www.fastcompany.com /magazine/70/dispatches1.html   (640 words)

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