Word: risk
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...recruiting minorities. Now they are discovering a compelling reason to hire minority reporters and give more space to minority issues: the bottom line. As the country's growing racial diversity is reflected in newspaper- readership studies, news executives are realizing that they must appeal to minority readers or risk losing them...
...recognizes that by moving Afro-American studies to the theoretical realm of literary criticism, scholars risk undermining their own political projects. "What kind of coalition is it when [your scholarship] takes you out of contact with 95 percent of my people in this country?" Baker asks...
...that's okay because in five years we'll sell our stock publicly again and make back 10 times what we invested. This assumes that the economy and inflation continue an upward trend, because if they don't we'll go bankrupt, but what's life without a little risk...
Thus Shultz seemed to be saying that it was up to him to decide who could speak for the P.L.O. and who could not. Moreover, given the fact that Arafat would be watched by U.S. security agents, if only for his own protection, the invocation of a security risk was, as a British diplomat put it, "nonsensical." Many diplomats were no less disturbed by the inconsistency of the U.S. position, noting that Arafat had been granted a visa to address the U.N. in 1974 at a time when his agenda was far more radical...
With its shop-lined main street, baseball field and grassy square, Wellsburg, W. Va., is in many ways a typical American town. Perhaps too typical. A survey last spring found that almost 70% of the Wellsburg area's 11,000 residents were at risk for heart disease. "I was just shocked that my cholesterol was that high," says Kitty Weidner, 75, whose reading was 241 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl) of blood. Admits store owner Tom Zurbuch, 46, a former junk- food junkie whose cholesterol level was about 265: "Apparently, we haven't been eating right...