Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wore leather pants and hockey jerseys to the office. His acquaintances ranged from former Treasury Secretary and White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan to Rock Star Bruce Springsteen, who lives near Mulheren in Rumson, N.J. All along, though, there were, inevitable questions about Mulheren's success. As a risk arbitrager who speculated in volatile takeover stocks, he was a member of a tight clique of operators that included Ivan Boesky. When Boesky was caught up 15 months ago in history's biggest insider-trading scandal, investigators started to close in on Mulheren...
...started an antiviolence program with a $27,000 federal crime-victim grant. Los Angeles' Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center has instituted a telephone hot line for assault victims, and San Francisco's Community United Against Violence offers free self-defense classes. But taking a stand means taking a risk. In Indianapolis, a few weeks after Kathleen Sarris appeared on radio and television talk shows as president of the gay-rights group Justice, Inc., she was raped at gunpoint and beaten unconscious by a man who insisted he would turn her into a heterosexual or kill...
With the drug merchants increasingly brazen, Colombia is slipping into the kind of lawlessness that may someday risk comparison with Lebanon's. Last year most of the 3,000 murders in Medellin had to do with drugs. "Our way of life is being threatened," Bogota Prosecutor Francisco Bernal Castillo told TIME last month. Bernal, still reeling from the shock of the assassination of Hoyos, who had been his superior, was carrying a pistol in his waistband and was accompanied by a bodyguard. Last week Bernal fled to the U.S. after receiving death threats from the Medellin cartel...
...Producer Linda Ellman, who worked with Maria Shriver in Los Angeles. "The more publicity they get, the more people are likely to watch them." The strongest detractors contend that any benefits may be illusory. By playing at being sex objects, they warn, even the most successful women run the risk of eroding their hard-earned credibility...
...Sherwood Gorbach, professor of community health at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston: "There is persuasive evidence that a low-fat diet can help prevent, and even treat, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. I'm of the school that holds that low-fat diets also reduce the risk of colon and breast cancer." At the very least, Gorbach notes, vegetarians tend to be thinner than meat eaters, and that alone is beneficial...