resilience

• The key to resilience is to anticipate the possibility of black swans (unlikely but potentially catastrophic events) and to hedge against them, avoid them entirely (become a dentist, not a stockbroker) or be prepared for them. —  How to Save the World
• A great barometer of the resilience are our customer asset balances, which held up remarkably well, declining only 8\% during the quarter and 15\% during the year both better than the S&P 500 decline of 22\% during the quarter and 38\% for the year. —  Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
• "As our lips touched I had a feeling that her mouth lacked resilience, as if she had no real muscle tension in her mouth, a result being that my own lips touched her teeth rather than lips, and this gave me an unhappy feeling of a sort of memento mori, and so the kissing stopped ...." —  The New York Review of Books
• A new survey from InnovationTools. com shows that innovation budgets appear to be enjoying surprising resilience, and that the climate for innovation is holding up well in many organizations - despite the global recession. —  PRWeb
• "There's this idea of resilience," said Rebecca Lewison, an assistant professor of biology at San Diego State University. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed

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