Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change runs the risk of turning the election into a popularity contest. But this year more council representatives opted for issues-oriented campaigns; a democratic election could only boost that trend. And since the candidates would be council members, only those committed to student government would be in the running...
...Dukakis succeed in pointing out this election year conversion? Bush's campaign has painted Dukakis as a bleeding heart liberal from early on. The Dukakis campaign, however, preferred to attack Bush's "competence" rather than his record. It may have wanted to avoid implicit criticisms of Reagan and risk the backlash of voters who refuse to believe the man could have done anything wrong...
...AIDS test is also widely used to screen donated blood for the virus and to check homosexual men and drug addicts, who are at high risk of AIDS. However, experts disagree over whether such screening should remain largely voluntary or be expanded to include mandatory testing of people at low risk of AIDS, such as all hospital patients...
BOSTON--The AIDS test is so accurate that even people at very low risk of the disease can be checked with virtually no risk of being falsely identified as infected, military research shows...
Opponents argue that, among other things, such broad testing could falsely label many healthy people as infected. For instance, Dr. Klemens B. Meyer of the New England Medical Center has suggested that of every 10 low-risk people with positive AIDS tests, nine of them might actually be free of the virus...