Word: risk
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...risk of infection increases according to the number of sexual partners one has, male or female. The more partners you have, the greater the risk of becoming infected with the AIDS virus...
...early 1990's there will be more than 270,000 cumulative cases of AIDS in the United States; 179,000 individuals will have died as a result of the disease. Moreover, it is now clear that the disease is transmitted heterosexually and does not discriminate according to any predefined "risk-group." In short, AIDS is a biologically complex medical problem that has all the makings of a major medical disaster...
...Africa and its heightened prestige abroad. On one hand, it must keep up pressure on the South African government if it is to retain its credibility and its following. On the other, even some A.N.C. leaders admit that a resort to more and more violence runs the very real risk of losing support, moral and otherwise, from the West and from whites in South Africa...
...ignores the psychology, the long history, even the geography of the alliance. With economic strains, manpower shortages (particularly in West Germany) and no draft in the U.S., will the allies do in the '80s what they were unwilling to do in the prosperous '60s and early '70s? Can we risk our security on so flimsy a hope...
While that may be too pessimistic, the nonsummit, or presummit or whatever, is indeed a risk. American Presidents and Soviet leaders have generally met in the past only after their diplomats had worked out agreements, however minor or ephemeral, for them to formalize. But Reagan and Gorbachev are conferring precisely because their subordinates have not been able to agree, in the hope they can pull off a kind of joint end run around their own diplomatic machineries. Even if all they can do is give the negotiating process a slight personal impetus -- or "impulse," as Gorbachev put it -- and produce...