Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbia now is faced with the difficult task of outdoing itself. As the most publicized losing team in history, Columbia is at risk of losing its notoriety. What can the Lions do for an encore? Lose 45 straight games...
...last week's Journal, Dutch researchers found epostane to be 84% effective in women five to eight weeks pregnant. Suction abortions, the usual surgical method, have a 96%-98% success rate. While both drugs allow women to avoid the dangers of surgery and anesthesia, they do carry a small risk of causing excessive bleeding. Should they fail, surgical abortion would be urged, since the drugs could damage the surviving fetus...
...disqualification suddenly riveted public attention on the decades-old problem of performance-enhancing drug use with an altogether new intensity. By week's end the total of ten drug-related disqualifications in Seoul was close to the 1984 figure. But many thought: If this world-record holder would risk detection, everyone must be doing it. Spectators felt deceived and non-using athletes felt gypped. Overnight the Olympics became clouded, suspected of being an unholy chemistry competition rather than the glorious alchemy of will, talent and training that is its ideal...
Gleason says that as the number of Americans who cannot perform higher math increases, the nation is put at risk--not only in terms of mathematical research, but also in terms of factory workers' ability to perform competently...
...posing the perennial pointless question about how Hembrick felt. As soon as swimmer Matt Biondi was touched out for the gold by a hundredth of a second in the 100-meter butterfly, analyst John Naber nastily opined that Biondi "deserved the loss" because he had glided in rather than risk a final, choppy stroke that might have caused him to collide with the wall...