Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pauper of 1988, Babbitt has little to lose, so he can risk everything. He is betting that his brutal honesty about cutting the federal deficit -- by raising taxes and slashing middle-class entitlements -- will garner attention. It is the only strategy he can afford...
...killing," says Polk, as a player whacks the ground with his mallet, missing the ball entirely. Spurrier, a horseman whose face shows ancestry that is part Osage Indian, gently instructs an observer who has thought polo a game for prosperous fops. Yes, he says, you could call it a risk sport; at least five Army friends died playing the game...
...returns to Russell, Kans., this week to make his formal announcement, Dole once again will be tugging at his hometown roots. Arguing that all the Republican candidates are pretty much alike on matters of policy, Dole is running mainly on his newly minted persona -- softer, less biting. The risk of such a strategy is that he will become known as the candidate with the split personality...
...residents of San Jose Guayabal, a town northeast of the capital, walk several blocks out of their way to avoid a National Guard checkpoint set up near the town plaza. Nearly everyone knows someone who has disappeared or died at the hands of the military, so why risk trouble? In Chalatenango province, near the border with Honduras, the locals stay away from the rutted dirt paths that wind through the green hills. Unwary travelers have lost feet or legs to land mines planted by rebel troops of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front...
Some body fat is essential, of course. The yellowish globules, layered under the skin and packed around organs, cushion the body against injury, insulate it from cold and supply fuel to meet energy needs. Too much fat, however, increases the risk of diabetes, hypertension and heart disease, among other afflictions. Establishing ideal body-fat percentages is difficult, since height, age, body frame and exercise are all factors. Generally, scientists agree that the normal range for men is 12% to 23% and for women...