Word: dicey
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...price-fixing and kickback scheme that inflated the cost of insurance for clients ranging from the Greenville County School District in South Carolina to companies like Fortune Brands. According to Spitzer, roughly $800 million of the $1.5 billion in net income Marsh earned last year came from those dicey commissions. The complaint says Marsh would sometimes promise business to one insurer but insist a competitor provide an inflated bid to create an illusion of competition--even demanding a "live body" at presentations to prospective clients...
...Bush Administration was moved to fill the post after recent polls showed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry narrowing the gap with Bush on the question of whom voters trust more to fight terrorism. That and warnings of a possible new alQaeda attack in the U.S. made it politically dicey to continue with no permanent CIA chief...
...Mohammed Amin Radhy opens his pediatric clinic only three days a week, for three hours at a time. In the new Baghdad, it's a life-or-death journey just to travel the 3 1/2 miles from his home in the elegant Mansour district to his office in a dicey part of the city near Tahrir Square. And when he does go to work, he encounters grim suffering he never expected to see. On a recent weekday a woman, swathed head to toe in a black aba, tugs her wailing child up the pitch-black stairs to the clinic...
...write your profile and pick your picture. Beware: online descriptions are often inflated, and some men set arbitrary age limits that become irrelevant once you meet. Some women feel compelled to whack a few years off their age just to get past those filters--a practicality that can be dicey. My suggestion: go ahead, but be sure to let the man know as soon as you meet him--and let him know...
They are fully aware of how difficult it will be to engineer this kind of change. Nestle, who served in the Reagan Administration as senior nutritional-policy adviser and editor of the first--and only--Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, knows that health messages are politically dicey when they concern the mighty food industry. Her 2002 book, Food Politics (University of California Press; 469 pages), documents how those messages get distorted. Still, that doesn't stop her and her fellow warriors from campaigning for action...