The firm will move its 40 U.S.-based workers to a self-insured plan in June, in part to avoid the health law's risk-spreading provisions that could raise its costs, said CEO Randy Keith.

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The present studio structure is designed to reduce the risk by spreading the bets--very similar to the way business is done in the valley.

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This mishmash will let him decide where to send field-workers to test for infected birds, plotting the risk of the disease spreading and the chance of setting up a secure quarantine.

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It will also risk the disease spreading beyond Pakistan's borders to India, which has been polio-free for more than a year.

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Arguments about the risk premium, earnings prospects and other new factors (demographic shifts, the spreading share-owning culture, and others besides) were accepted far too uncritically in the late 1990s.

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Volunteers - many of whom were evacuated from their homes as the flames ravaged the area - will create ponds to form natural barriers to try to reduce the risk of fires spreading.

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Executives interviewed for the report indicated that the social media risk is rising, and they worry about cyber attacks, breaches of confidentiality, fast-spreading malicious rumors about the company, as well as financial disclosures.

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