Word: risked
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...book, Responsibility and Response, Taylor notes that the U.S. and its Allies in Viet Nam are "pursuing a limited objective with limited means at limited risk for a limited purpose." As for the bombing, he cites "the broken bridges, the interrupted highways, the inoperable rail lines, the airfields out of action, the ports which cannot be used" as evidence of the punishment it has inflicted on the North...
...Spain's Jews and Protestants, the bill is nonetheless an important advance. Not that they have done badly, despite official obstacles. Unwilling to risk living in Morocco after it won independence from France in 1956, some 5,500 Jews emigrated to Spain, live quietly as members of the business and professional class. Spain's Protestants are largely native-born Spaniards of working-class, urban background whose ancestors picked up the faith by way of foreign missionaries allowed in Spain for a few years in the late 19th century. Aggressive and evangelical, Spain's Protestants have increased...
Though genetics is an arcanely intricate science, the risks of unfavorable inheritance fall sharply and neatly into two groups. Dr. Fraser Roberts labels them, simply, the bad and the good. In the bad-risk group, the chance that a couple's next child will be born defective is at least one in ten. In the good-risk group, it is no more than one in 25. For remote mathematical reasons, there are few in-between cases...
...weak and is overpowered by a corresponding normal gene, so that a child with one normal parent does not develop the disease. But if both parents carry the abnormal gene, and it is proved by the birth of one child with cystic fibrosis, there is a one-in-four risk that any subsequent child will also be afflicted. Other diseases in the bad-risk group: some forms of mental retardation, deafness, muscular dystrophy and hemophilia-like bleeding disorders. The counselor's advice to parents with one child suffering from these has to be: if you want more children, adopt...
Stollman might have to back up his threat, because spokesmen for Briggs and Briggs, The Coop and Minuteman Radio Inc. have indicated that they will not run the risk of court action in order to sell the Fugs...