Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AIDS-antibody test -- which reveals only exposure to the AIDS virus and is not a test for the disease -- have been passed by California, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. Insurers are being accused of attempting to identify and screen out homosexual men, one of the groups at highest risk of contracting the disease, by denying policies on the basis of occupation, marital status and neighborhood. In California, National Gay Rights Advocates has filed a $10 million sex-discrimination suit against Great Republic Life Insurance, charging that the company has decided to refuse coverage to unmarried males working in such...
...most ravaged investors last week were Boesky's colleagues, the risk arbitragers who speculate on takeovers by investing in target companies. Arbitragers, who gamble that share prices will rise in value as a proposed merger approaches its conclusion, were left holding huge volumes of so-called deal stocks when the Boesky scandal broke. Those shares took a sharp plunge last week as investors rushed to dump them, leaving the "arbs" with collective losses of $1 billion or more. The arbitrage department at Merrill Lynch, for example, is estimated by competitors to have dropped $20 million to $50 million...
...that in the hearts of the American people is a hatred and a detestation of everything that the Ayatullah Khomeini stands for. I feel that way myself. So in making any contact with Iran, there has been -- and perhaps for a long time to come will be -- a risk that the American people wouldn't understand. You have to know the President to know how strongly he feels about the release of hostages. The problem on all this, of course, is the perception that arms were traded for hostages. The President is absolutely, totally convinced in his mind that that...
...world of Ayatullahs and Sandinistas is a world that will often demand clandestine deals. The particular deal now unraveling was cockeyed to begin with and probably illegal. Nevertheless, we may have to deal secretly again. If we are going to play the great power game, and ask others to risk their lives to help us win it, we had best accept the need for sordid secrecy. Or give up the game altogether...
...film is at its best in the first hour, when it explores the ways Charles and Audrey fulfill each other's fantasies. She is his risk-taking, defiant lover. He is her loving, stable husband. The relationship is odd but sweet and interesting. Whether or not it will last is the next logical question, and one that interests the audience...