Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that it threatens to discredit the entire Reagan Doctrine. Despite the severe excesses committed in its name, the strategy of combatting Soviet expansionism is at least a debatable option for U.S. foreign policy. But any policy that is concealed from Congress and much of the Government always runs the risk of conferring enormous power on individuals who may abuse it or confuse it with their own reckless or over-zealous imperatives. That is just what happened in the case of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. He wound up disastrously damaging the very causes he worked so fervently to promote...
Indeed the earlier CDC investigation of Belle Glade failed to find AIDS infections except among members of traditional risk groups and their sex partners. "If mosquitoes are doing it," said a CDC spokeswoman last week, "they are very selective about who they are biting...
...convicted by a military court of sedition in 1980. The President said his decision was influenced by the "attitude of the person concerned." Translation: Kim, who once ran for President and won 46% of the vote, is still too large a threat to the ruling party to risk restoring him to full political activity. Finally, Chun promised to order the release of nearly all the 300 demonstrators arrested during the current round of protests but indicated that the fate of some 3,000 other political prisoners could not be so easily resolved...
...quipped, "Censorship is the strongest drive in human nature. Sex is a weak second." Some Fundamentalists have focused their sects' drive on getting Playboy and Penthouse removed from the shelves of 7- Eleven stores. Pressure groups have successfully lobbied the FCC to slap down Howard Stern and the other risk jockeys of raunch radio. In 1984 feminists won passage of an Indianapolis ordinance that defined pornography as the "graphic, sexually explicit subordination of women through pictures and/ or words" -- thereby implicitly condoning gay S-M porn (in which men may subordinate men) and much S-M heterosexual porn (in which...
Medicine: Advancing technology intensifies the national debate over the abortion issue. Health & Fitness: With the spread of the aids virus, the civil liberties of the afflicted may be at risk. Computers: As Big Brother moves into the data banks, protecting individual privacy becomes an increasingly daunting task...