Sentences with phrase «risk of a double whammy»

The fundamental premise of the session was a fairly straightforward one; without very careful thought around pricing strategy, firms that rush headlong into the new technology run the risk of a double whammy — the cost associated with investing in the technology and some fee earners finding that their bread - and - butter work (rudimentary document review and the like) can be done in a small fraction of the time that they would normally devote to cranking out billable hours.

Not exact matches

«We wanted to find out if obesity - related genes and activity level have an interactive effect on obesity risk — if there is a «double whammy» effect of being both at genetic risk and physically inactive, beyond the additive effect of these factors,» said Dr. Wood.

Those areas not only harbor the highest numbers of species, they also happen to suffer very high rates of habitat destruction - a sort of double - whammy that puts many species at risk for extinction.

Lead researchers Eric Reiman and Pierre Tariot of the Banner Alzheimer's Institute in Phoenix plan to give a yet - to - be identified anti-amyloid drug, or placebo, to 650 people who carry two copies of the APOE4 gene — a genetic double whammy that confers a 10-fold increased risk of developing Alzheimer's late in life.

Behavioral genetic analyses showed that children who resided with antisocial fathers received a «double whammy» of genetic and environmental risk for conduct problems.»