Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still at the center of the investigation, by all accounts, are Drexel Burnham Lambert and Michael Milken, head of the investment firm's junk-bond operation. Since junk bonds, which are high-yield, high-risk securities, are often used to finance takeovers, Milken and other Drexel Burnham employees have had advance knowledge of many big deals and could have passed information to speculators like Boesky. Drexel Burnham admits that in 1986 it received a $5.3 million payment from Boesky for "advisory services." After news of the payment broke, the firm's chief executive, Frederick Joseph, steadfastly ! maintained that internal company...
...rebel sabotage brought the entire operation for Tigre and Eritrea to a halt for more than a month. Not only were the convoys under threat from Eritrean and Tigrean rebels, but even those agencies willing to risk assault could not move their trucks because the government closed the roads. "If many people die this year and next, it will not be due to drought but the politico- military situation," said one relief worker...
...Just because you are not extremely prone to gum disease as a result of your preference of eating habits, you are acting in anger against those who may be at risk...
WHEN YOU think of difficult jobs, you think of high-risk jobs. Policemen face death daily. So do emergency room doctors. Skyscraper window washers know that grievous bodily harm is just a wrong step away. But then again, these jobs feature a certain amount of excitement, a few shots of adrenalin now and then to break up the workday routine. The pressure is high, and mistakes can be deadly. It's easy to stay awake...
...anyone who works at a low-pressure, no-risk service job faces a daily battle with a quieter, more maddening foe: ruthless, relentless tedium. For some, "busy work" is a way of life. Get up. Go to work. Perform the same task over and over till lunch. Hope for some excitement. Perform the same task over and over till quitting time. Try not to go crazy...