Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called the unit, since disbanded, a "bastard in the intelligence community." Harel also contended that in the past, MOSSAD avoided using Jews of other nationalities as spies, for fear of compromising their communities abroad. "Should we create a situation in which people in the U.S. consider Jews a security risk?" he asks...
...rate genie not stuffed back into the bottle. The exuberant entrepreneurship that created 630,000 new businesses and 11 million new jobs is forgotten, as if the thought had never darkened the detached cerebrum of the Hollywood has-been. The truth is that Reagan's unabashed enthusiasm for competition, risk and profit has given the managers of U.S. capitalism enough new spirit to carry the message right through to the next President, be he Democrat or Republican. Prosperity has been no mere conjurer's trick; it was paid for with a painful recession that was the first valley...
Employers may still dismiss someone who is incapable of doing work or who poses a significant risk of spreading disease. But, Brennan stressed, each individual case must be judged in the light of medical evidence that such a risk exists and a showing that safe alternative work cannot reasonably be found for the employee...
Last November, Vestron Pictures, a new Connecticut-based film company, agreed to put up roughly half the money, thanks largely to its executives' interest in Irish literature; the rest of the backing came from Europe. "It's a risk for us, of course," says Vestron Vice President Bill Quigley. "But we consider it one for the soul." For Huston it is one from the heart. Although the story has been expanded to fit the new medium, the director insists it remains faithful to the source. "I don't think that Joyce's spirit would raise its head in holy horror...
...more common than previously believed, doctors have begun to recommend that all children with unexplained cases of mental retardation be tested for the syndrome. At the very least, they say, such examination will reveal if the child's condition is hereditary and will enable parents to evaluate the risk of having another affected child. Fragile X can also be diagnosed prenatally by means of amniocentesis. But doctors cannot yet determine whether the fetus will be affected or simply be a carrier...