Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SAME DAY the anti-racism law was passed, the Parliament approved another controversial law. Israeli citizens who have contacts with groups the government dislikes are now liable for prosecution and risk up to seven years in jail. Only certain forms of press conferences and international meetings are allowed to take place...
...Using all four lines, Coach [John] Dooley gave the first two lines a break, helping us cut down the risk of injury," Carney said. "It was good that everyone got the chance to play...
...questioned the methodology and conclusions of the Grace report, which stated that materials deposited at the site and since removed have not contaminated the area's groundwater and does not pose a health risk to nearby residents...
After the first cases appeared in the U.S. nearly a decade ago, the public generally assumed that victims of AIDS would be confined to certain well- defined "risk groups," notably homosexuals and intravenous drug users. But there is an ever growing body of medical evidence that almost everyone is vulnerable to the mysterious, deadly and so far incurable disease. Last week produced the most frightening prediction yet. By 1990, warned the World Health Organization, the number of people infected by the AIDS virus worldwide could reach 100 million. Not all of them would become fatally ill, but they would nonetheless...
...Kodak, its South African revenues were less than 1% of its $10 billion worldwide sales last year. Said Kodak Chairman Colby Chandler: "We cannot see with any certainty a time when South Africa will be free from apartheid. The implication of that situation is a degree of business risk that we do not consider prudent." Kodak's 466 local employees, 61% of whom are nonwhite, have been told that they will lose their jobs...