Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aptly named Johnson Controls, Inc. does not pretend to try to protect their full-grown employees, male or female, from hazardous materials. Instead, women workers are assumed to be unable to make smart choices about their reproductive futures, and men, whose own reproductive systems remain at risk to lead exposure, are left alone. Non-existent, spiritual fetuses are the justification for a company's right to: a) deprive potential mothers of high-paying work and b) deprive potential mothers of potential motherhood. An ostensibly "pro-life" policy becomes a policy of sex discrimination and forced sterilization...
...This mass of letters might be a catalyst for some official to decide that it is no longer a risk to allow [Belitsky] to leave the Soviet Union," Kanevsky said...
...certainly has led to drinking in small groups," says Henry C. Moses, the dean of first-year students. "But we were always alert to the risk that eliminating kegs in the Yard may lead to people saying `if we can't have kegs then we'll have hard liquor...
...president won a legislative victory today with use of a legislative minority," said Rep. Les AuCoin (D-Ore.). "He will put his party at tremendous risk in the next election, and some of his allies on the House floor will not be returned...
What kind of rebel officers risk their lives to storm the lair of a hated military dictator, capture him at gunpoint, decline either to kill him or to turn him over to U.S. forces standing by to receive him, then let him contact his mistress, who calls loyal troops to his rescue...