Word: risk
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...Williams lost her seat in the 1983 general election when redistricting made her region "unwinnable" for a Social Democrat, another episode in what she calls a "snakes and ladders" political career. "There was always an element of risk," she says of her two stints in Parliament as a liberal representing marginal to conservative districts...
...they impose equivalent restrictions upon both sexes. Taylor's office has such a code, which mandates conservative dress for all. Though her fashion judgment may be subject to question, her complaint illustrates how the right image for working women is still unsettled. "Almost anything you wear runs the risk of looking like you're trying to appear just like a man, or too feminine," says University of Miami law school professor Mary Coombs. Still, common sense would seem to rule out some costumes. Says dean Roger Abrams of the Nova University Center for the Study of Law in Fort Lauderdale...
Americans want their children to have good teachers, it seems, but they are not sure they want them to become teachers. And perhaps with good reason. Since 1983, when the federally sponsored report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform warned of a "rising tide of mediocrity" in U.S. schools, the country's 2.3 million public school teachers have come in for stinging criticism -- some of it no doubt justified...
...third know when the Civil War occurred? That in a recent ABC-TV-sponsored survey of 200 teenagers, less than half could identify Daniel Ortega (President of Nicaragua) and two-thirds were ignorant of Chernobyl (one guessed it was Cher's real name). Five years after A Nation at Risk prompted a flurry of reform, average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) have risen 11 points. Still, as recently as last spring, former Secretary of Education William Bennett gave U.S. schools an overall grade of no better than a C or a C-plus. To the teaching establishment...
...while those doing the chasing tend to be young, inexperienced officers. For the cops, pursuits can spark up long hours of dull patrol duty. In addition, "there is a John Wayne syndrome," notes Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation in Washington; police work attracts some aggressive "risk takers" who are apt to get caught up in macho antics...