Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class won't be as insightful if everyone is unprepared, but that's a risk representative of the business world," says first-year student Eric-Vincent Guichard. This risk looms largest during the corporate recruiting season, says Guichard, when preparation for job interviews tends to take priority over classwork...
Longer range, Bush is running a risk of subtly and unintentionally undermining his Administration. A primal commandment for new Presidents, particularly those faced with a Congress controlled by the opposition party: Thou shalt avoid early defeats. The opening days are the time when Congress and the public -- and foreign leaders -- are sizing up the new man. The perceptions they form early are likely to color their view of the President throughout his term...
...however, comes fresh evidence that inflation may be making a comeback at a time when it could play havoc with the aging economic expansion and the new Administration. A serious rise in prices would force the Federal Reserve to fight back by pushing interest rates higher, which runs the risk of choking the economy, boosting the federal budget deficit, and ballooning the cost of President Bush's savings and loan bailout...
...lighter note, Mailer said he suspected the odds against a customer suffering harm while browsing at a bookstore were close to 100,000 to 1. "Such odds, if widely promulgated," he observed, "would have brought in many prospective customers looking for the spice of a very small risk." ; Biographer Robert Massie, president of the 6,500-member Authors Guild, offered a practical suggestion: he urged writers to ask publishers to withdraw their books from chains that had removed the Rushdie novel from their shelves...
...study, titled "Intolerable Risk: Pesticides in Our Children's Food," examines recent federal data on the eating habits of infants and youngsters through age five, along with figures on the amount of pesticides in 27 different crops. The information is then used to assess the long-term risk of cancer and neurological problems in these children. Eight of the pesticides are believed to be human carcinogens; all are used on fruits and vegetables frequently consumed by children, including peas, carrots, fruit juices and applesauce. Among the key findings...