Word: risk
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...government documents have raised more hackles or lit more fires than the 1983 Department of Education report titled A Nation at Risk. The survey sounded an alarm over the "rising tide of mediocrity" sweeping American schools. It warned that had this mediocrity been imposed by a foreign power, "we might well have viewed it as an act of war." Overnight, the document became a spur for nationwide school reform...
...Carpenter accident occurred April 16 when three year-old Jacob Smith fell 12 feet from a stairway. That incident led to a risk assessment reevaluation of Faculty of Arts and Sciences buildings...
Reminiscing about his father, Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., a noted historian and champion of social and economic history, the younger Schlesinger told a crowd of more than 300 that "doctrinaire social history paradoxically runs the risk of severing history's relationship to society" and "makes history static." He said that his father would have been pleased with the predominance of social historians today, but at the same time never forgot the "indispensibility" of studying wars, politics and diplomacy...
...great is the risk of the AIDS virus being transmitted between male and female sex partners? Americans have been told both not to worry and, in a sensationalized book by Sexologists Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, that AIDS is "running rampant" among heterosexuals. Now Dr. Norman Hearst and Dr. Stephen Hulley of the University of California at San Francisco have calculated the odds of heterosexual transmission. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association they reported that the chance of getting AIDS ranges from 1 in 500 for a single act of intercourse with an infected partner...
...couples. Women who were once told they might never conceive are now able to become pregnant. But fertility drugs or surgery can produce three or four, sometimes even eight or nine, fetuses. Not only does such a pregnancy threaten the mother's health, but each extra fetus increases the risk of miscarriage or premature birth, which can cause an infant's death or irreparable brain damage. In a widely publicized 1985 case, Californian Patti Frustaci gave birth prematurely to septuplets; only three survived...