Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City and the futures exchanges in Chicago. But recently some Wall Street firms have taken to delaying one or the other leg of the two- part transaction, depending on which way the market is moving. The effect of such "legging," as the practice is called, is to turn a risk-free transaction into a highly speculative one. Critics charge that it has made stock prices more volatile than ever...
Scientists are proceeding cautiously with the new therapies. "In any substance that is immunologically active," observes Genentech's Sherwin, "you run the risk of tilting the balance in an unfavorable way. We don't know all of the answers...
...risk has been a serious concern, especially after Daly last fall fell off the top of a pyramid and blacked out when she hit the ground. Although she left the field on a stretcher, she suffered no permanent injuries...
Graham said Monday that she also wanted to draw attention to IV drug users as a group in danger from the disease. She said she hoped such an exchange program would protect drug users, as well as their partners and children, who are also at risk...
...caress the soft curves of domestic danger. It's also a beguiling metaphor for the dilemma of the novelist or filmmaker who, omnipotently, creates his characters and then must let them breathe, misbehave, go their own ways. Who knows what happens next? Nobody, for sure. And that is the risk held out, like an apple in Eden, by life...