Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Half a dozen of the most potent drugs used by physicians have been known for years to cause changes in the chromosomes in some of the body's cells, with the parallel risk that they might also cause genetic defects if the patient later became a parent. Up to now, such drugs have been used only in the treatment of advanced cancer, so the danger to children has been minimal. But last week, in the journal Science, a team of researchers at the State Uni- versity of New York in Buffalo reported that LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), the favorite...
Before bombing commences, continued the Economist, the target is pinpointed by observers, who "reconnoiter the area for hours in slow-flying aircraft, often at great personal risk. If there is a possibility of hitting civilians, the whole thing is usually called off." In some areas of the Mekong Delta that have been declared "friendly," U.S. patrol boats are forbidden to return enemy fire for fear of hitting civilians. B-52 bombers, used only in full-scale open fighting, are electronically controlled and have a "remarkable" degree of accuracy. "The picture is reasonably clear," concluded the Economist. "Perhaps never before...
...make loans on some 7,000 homes within 18 months. The money will go primarily to buyers of new, one-family homes through mortgage bankers across the U.S. With more capital and borrowing, Home Capital aims at financing 100,000 homes a year by 1972, will reduce its own risk by insuring the loans with Milwaukee-based Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp...
Bauer, a forward on the Harvard hockey team, approved of the decision. "I'd rather play two more years than play tonight," he said yesterday. "If there's any doubt at all then I don't think we should risk the chance...
...million earlier in the year, demanded to see the company's balance sheet. Then-incredibly-they turned Krupp down. Said Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Hermann Abs, Germany's most powerful banker: "It is the noblest right of the banker to say no when he considers the risk exhausted." Abs next took the problem to Bonn. Schiller stepped in quickly, fearing that a crisis at Krupp (annual sales: $1.2 billion) would deepen Germany's economic downturn...