Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston city politics, whether or not they accurately portray the circumstances of the plan's development. School Committee President Tom O'Reilley says, "There were probably some legitimate concerns under the rhetoric... Blacks were protected under the courtordered plan. For some, there's a sense of insecurity and risk...
...Bundy does believe in the neccesity of arms control agreements to reduce nuclear danger. Although he still asserts that both countries, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., must maintain a "deterrent balance" in order to reduce the risk of nuclear conflict, Bundy posits a need for "unilateral moderation" that can "save money and leave real parity intact...
Asbestos, the cancer-causing mineral that is being scrubbed from thousands of U.S. schools, is causing an epidemic of fear among the owners and tenants of asbestos-ridden office towers, shopping malls, industrial parks and apartment buildings. Even though the substance poses only a minimal health risk in most work environments, its widespread presence in the ceilings and walls of commercial buildings is prompting a sharp drop in the value of those , structures. It is also spurring a crash cleanup effort that may cost as much as $100 billion over the next 25 years. "Asbestos is the monster...
...true that not all women who get pregnant choose to have sex. Rape victims, though often responsible adults, have no choice in the matter and never choose to take the risk of having sex. If they get pregnant, they should be allowed to have an abortion...
Such women should be held responsible for their own actions and should not be allowed to have an abortion. They willingly take the risk of getting pregnant and should not be allowed to use abortion as birth control. The fetus' claims as a potential being should take precedence over the mother's, who shouldn't be allowed to make the fetus suffer when she willfully took the chance to become pregnant...