Word: risk
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...says, 1% of American households control about 35% of the nation's assets, compared with as little as 21% in 1949. Because the lower and middle classes now have a smaller proportion of the assets, they rely heavily on borrowing and thus become overextended. That puts at heavy risk the banks and other institutions that have loaned them money. Meanwhile, as the rich grow richer, Batra says, they become enamored of speculative investments. As a result, goes Batra's theory, the financial house of cards will topple. The stock market will crash, the banking system will collapse, and the American...
Unfortunately, at present the Europeans have little desire to devote large budgetary resources to their defense. Until we can persuade them to do so, we must continue to guard the continent. If our commitment disappeared, our closest allies--culturally and economically as well as militarily--would be at substantial risk. A world without intimate friends in Europe would be a cold one indeed, something to consider next time the Administration's negotiators sit down in snowy Geneva...
...question (it's a lot easier to cheat on a true-false test than an essay exam) and it is certainly affected by frustration level. If you can't for the life of you remember one out of 100 multiple choice questions, it seems pretty darn stupid to risk the other 99 by looking over someone's shoulder. If you have gone through all 100 and haven't gotten one so far, you might feel you have less to lose by trying to pick up a couple answers the slimy...
...city's Mission District, his white plastic bag bursting with 1-oz. bottles of household bleach and packets of condoms. His message to IV addicts is blunt and simple: Don't share needles, but if you have to, clean the "works" twice with bleach, a procedure that reduces the risk of exposure to the virus. While the rate of new infection among the city's mostly white homosexual community has slowed to about 4%, the rate among San Francisco's estimated 18,000 IV addicts is 15%, up 50% since...
...condoms and get AIDS-virus testing and counseling. Some black leaders complain, however, that too much of the federal AIDS-education programs and funds is aimed at white, middle-class students, rather than at the young, inner-city IV addicts and their sexual partners, who are much more at risk. For the moment the Reagan Administration resists the notion that it should appropriate funds for programs designed specifically for < minorities. "We are strongly opposed to earmarking funds in that way," says White House Domestic Policy Adviser Gary Bauer...