Word: dicey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reproductive Biology Associates clinic holds up, women could freeze eggs while in their early twenties, when they are the most fertile, and have their children much later in life. While this frees women from many of the biological constraints that currently make having children later in life a dicey proposition, the generational and societal hurdles involved in raising a child born to a 60-year-old mother may be harder to overcome...
...work for Molten Metal Technology, a Massachusetts environmental-technology company, hit the trifecta, bringing cash to the firm, funds to the Clinton-Gore campaign and special financial rewards to Knight. It was a dicey political mixture that landed him in the sights of not only the Justice Department but also Representative Tom Bliley's Commerce Committee and Senator Fred Thompson's Governmental Affairs Committee, which will take his deposition this week...
...Sound dicey? TIME medical writer Christine Gorman says the deal may have already devalued the seal: "It's when money is changing hands that we start questioning the ethics behind this kind of agreement." Gorman notes that some years ago the American Heart Association launched a more ambitious endorsement plan, only to scrap it because it was too controversial. So who do you turn to for unbiased product information? Try Consumer Reports, which rejects endorsement deals, says Gorman...
...there, it's always something different." Some opt out of the rat race. "What seems like apathetic hedonism actually represents a fairly informed bet," American Demographics columnist Marc Spiegler wrote recently. "Why put up with the cubicled world's woes when its promised delayed gratification is an ever more dicey proposition?" The slogan on Eddie Bauer's shopping bags puts it succinctly: "Never confuse having a career with having a life...
Apple Computer's latest plans to lay off 2,700 employees (25 percent of its payroll) are a dicey gamble. Having sliced its staff in half since 1995, th e struggling computermaker must now pray that it can keep the workers it needs to think its way out of the tiny corner of the market where it cowers, says San Francisco Bureau Chief Dave Jackson. While Apple CEO Gilbert Emilio insists that the company w ill return to profitability by year's end, that's not really the point in a business where rapid innovation is survival, and where fewer...