Word: risk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispute that the use of animals in medical research has contributed to significant advances in treatments for human diseases. However, it should also be recognized that certain forms of animal research could easily be replaced by cell and bacterial culture methods. The risk in transferring results obtained from animal experiments to actual human cases should also be recognized...
...structure. Rather than fire-bombing offices, they campaign for pro-divestment candidates to the Board of Overseers. Forums on free speech have replaced divestment marches once so large they stopped all traffic in the square. Pseudo-political sophistication is predominant where once single-minded devotion and a willingness to risk injury and expulsion reigned...
...Hainan Island, now part of Guangdong, into a separate province with the mandate to become a capitalistic special economic zone. Both Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and Acting Premier Li Peng called for further development of the coastal industrial cities and special economic zones, even at the risk of letting the rest of the country languish. Said Li: "We must persevere in our policy of permitting a part of the people to become prosperous before the rest...
...Evening News up by 30 minutes to make room for it. New York City's WCBS-TV is expected to make the same move. These stations can keep more of the ad revenues with a syndicated show in that time slot than with a network program, but risk reducing the audience for network news by shifting it to a less-watched time period...
...three-month suspension originally imposed by the local district council in Louisiana. They ruled that Swaggart must stay out of the pulpit and off TV for a year; even past tapes cannot be aired. Swaggart nonetheless announced that he would return to television on May 22, despite the risk of defrocking...