"It's very risky territory for an actor because there are almost no rules at all," he said.

Adolescence of any kind is risky territory for the "young adult" book writer, perhaps especially in the United States at the present time.

But for us, we're often in risky territory.

You're in very risky territory here.

This is always risky territory, since terror and suspense have a way of dissipating as soon as their sources are revealed.

In doing so, he is staking out risky literary territory - albeit in his own casually elegant fashion.

"You're about thirty-six, thirty-seven," he said, starting with the riskiest territory and rapidly moving on.

But ABC has taken this concept into entirely new, and risky, territory.

Yet the pressures of intense publicity and political interest, others feel, at times led experts into uncharted and risky territory.

Clinton Administration officials say the ferocity of charges from the political left and right show that it is pursuing a reasonable middle course into risky new territory.