Word: risked
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...evil reputation as a killer and crippler of the unborn, it is otherwise a mild and almost harmless infection. Not so with common measles. "Of all the childhood diseases that remain," says Dr. H. Bruce Dull of the National Communicable Disease Center, "measles is the one with the most risk...
...been estimated that 90% of the nonprofessional speculators are consistent losers. But like horse racing, the losers continue to come back for more. Because of the low margin requirements-the buyer has to put up a maximum of 10%-risk takers can afford to speculate. The board watches all activity closely, and so does the Commodity Exchange Authority in Washington, which is anxious to see the margin requirement increased...
Unless the war is ended very soon, Kennedy warned, the Democratic party will risk a serious defeat in the next elections...
...more complicated than Mendelian recessive. They produce hydrocephalus (water on the brain), spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), harelip and clubfoot. When a couple has had one child with one of these defects, the chance that a later child will have it is in the good-risk range, or about one in 25. "You may think that is rather serious," said Dr. Fraser Roberts, "but we think it is really something rather cheerful. You have to remember there is a one-in-33 chance that any pregnancy will end with some severe malformation or developmental error...
Most of the couples counseled at Guy's Hospital have heeded the geneticists' advice. Only a few in the poor-risk group have had more children. For them, the gloomy predictions were borne out, with severe defects in two cases out of eleven. But of 81 children born to couples in the good-risk group, only one inherited a major defect. That is a better showing than even "normal" couples can expect...