Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hardest hit are thousands of Soviet Armenians, who have swelled the emigrant ranks in recent months. In June alone the embassy issued 2,000 refugee visas, more than the total for all 1987. Many Armenians who were planning to leave the U.S.S.R. in a few weeks risk having their Soviet exit visas expire before the U.S. again opens its doors. Said a distraught emigrant: "We moved out of our apartments and quit our jobs...
...Clean, Well-Lighted Place." And the men in Where I'm Calling From hunt, fish, drink and brawl. But although Hemingway's men adopt a tough exterior in order to hide when life or women get them down, Carver's men remain vulnerable, as husbands or fathers, and risk compassion...
...Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park. "We can restore and sustain the appearance of undisturbed wilderness only by admitting that undisturbed wilderness no longer exists." Watt was right that the parks cannot be preserved like museum pieces under glass. But without better management, they risk becoming lessons in how quickly man can use up a continent...
...supported research-and- development projects but actually perform little productive labor. "I recently heard a horrible statistic," he told the conference. "There are supposed to be 900,000 scientific workers in Moscow. What is this supposed to be, a gathering place for wunderkinder?" Baiting bureaucrats is hardly a high-risk enterprise in the Gorbachev era, of course, but Kabaidze's gibes drew appreciative chuckles and applause, even from some of their targets in the audience...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government promised "a very, very deep and far-reaching inquiry." Questions arose about safety stadards in the high-risk industry, and opposition politicians claimed safety was neglected...