There is, to be sure, a certain hot-potato aspect to this kind of speculation.
Today that is turning into a game of hot-potato between sales, marketing, and now Finance.
That urge to flee was especially fierce in the hot-potato days of the tech bust.
The hot-potato game with risk started with an apartment owner that faced increased electric bills during bad winters.
The move comes as Republicans grapple with the hot-potato issue of raising the government's borrowing limit later this year, one of the few must-do items on a dysfunctional Washington's agenda this year.
The increase in liver disease has become a political hot potato - should there be a further tax on alcohol to deter drinkers or will they drink regardless?
This question--what is new law, what is old law--is another hot potato.
Karnjanaprakorn is a veteran of Hot Potato, an event-focused online chat service acquired by Facebook in 2010.
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It would rather pass this hot potato to an inter-agency group that would include the State Department and the Treasury to deal with hard cases.
Prior to Skillshare, Karnjanaprakorn led the product team at check-in service provider Hot Potato, which was acquired by Facebook to build its Places tool.
Probably only if the government were able to offer risk-adjusted returns at least equal to those they currently earn which, given traditional government procurement policies and the fact that drug-industry profits are a political hot potato, it seems unlikely to do.
Risk--in this case for workers' compensation liability--got passed from hand to hand in a game of hot potato.
Maybe the soil out there is so rich, the days so hot and the nights so cool and crisp, that a 12, 000-pound potato is within the realm of possibility.
And that makes bureaucratic reform and deregulation as much of a political hot potato as tax collection, which squeezes the disposable incomes of the self-employed from whose votes the other big party, Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PdL), has long profited.
The Clinton-Gore campaign responds to the RNC's "Pledge" and throws the tax hot potato back into Dole's lap.
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