Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mary, I don't mind if you take the other call, but I'm afraid that I am going to have to monitor the line. In this dangerous age, the practice of `Safe Phone' is imperative to mental health. I simply cannot afford the risk of ridicule in this stage of my emotional development...
...York City to coordinate their search through human DNA for the genes that may underlie alcoholism. If they are successful, doctors may one day be able to test young people for certain genetic markers, the chromosomal quirks that predispose some individuals to alcoholism, and warn those who are at risk of developing the disease. Says Henri Begleiter, professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center and president of the Research Society on Alcoholism: "Never in the history of alcoholism have we made as much progress as we have in recent years...
Ethanol has a harmful effect on nearly every organ in the body. Chronic heavy drinking increases the risk of myocardial disease and high blood pressure. Alcohol eats away at the stomach and intestines, causing bleeding in some drinkers. Alcoholic males may experience shrunken testes, reduced testosterone levels, and even impotence. Sustained drinking sometimes disrupts women's menstrual cycles and can render them infertile. Among expectant mothers, drinking can produce birth defects and is a major cause of mental retardation in American children. Even the immune system's efficiency is reduced by alcohol. Studies are under way to determine whether heavy...
...mindedness: the "I'm O.K. Because Society Says I'm Not O.K." movie. The protagonist is not insane, merely misunderstood by those who impose rules she refuses to play by. Every time an authority figure declares she is incompetent, her sanity is supposed to be affirmed. This is no-risk psychodrama. And no drama as well, because Claudia's moral superiority is too easy to spot...
...extracurricular activities, for instance, flouted convention so recklessly that they have to be judged relevant to his fitness for the White House, however much the public might view the story as Peeping Tomism. Further, though he knew that he in particular would get close scrutiny, Hart practiced his high-risk life-style after becoming a serious candidate. The occasional use of pot by Gore and Babbitt years previously, when it was common among young people, may have been a legal infraction. But no one has argued that these offenses say anything at all about their qualifications or character today...