Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Rock, where schools were rigidly segregated ten years ago, some 1,400 Negroes now go to classes with whites. With a 25% Negro population statewide, Arkansas' school integration pace is ahead of the Deep South's-and with less pressure from Washington. Rather than risk another Little Rock, most white Arkansans today accept a gradualistic approach to civil rights issues...
...necessary to skirt the standing faculty Committee on Curriculum and have a totally new group draw, up the report. He asked Dr. Alexander Leaf, a member of the Curriculum Committee, last year to pull together a subcommittee. Leaf's sub-committee produced its report last Spring. Rather than risk the Curriculum Committee's toning it down, Ebert threw the proposals to the entire faculty in September. The faculty has been officially debating them at its monthly meetings since then, with unofficial debate continuing through the Med School corridors and offices...
French industry is atomized into countless small, family-owned firms, whose self-satisfied owners are often reluctant to risk expansion or spend for modernization. Of the 30 biggest industrial companies outside the U.S., twelve are German, ten British, but only two are French (Renault and Rhône-Poulenc). Expansion capital is hard to come by. Frenchmen are wary of investing, often prefer to sock their savings into real estate and gold. They have seen too many investments demolished by wars and inflations, and their fears have hardly been allayed by the 40% plunge in the French stock market since...
...much that may be. Left in the dark, his aides are chagrined that their decisions must involve so much guesswork. Says Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin: "If the defense supplemental is going to be, as many think, between $7 billion and $15 billion, we should take the calculated risk of a one-year tax increase rather than risk another step on the accelerator. It's easier to remove the tax increase than to untangle the impact of an inflationary situation...
...cracking plant, are Eastbound, the Communists still stand to make money out of the deals. No Western bank is allowed a branch in Moscow, but the Russians already have banks in London, Paris and Beirut that earn attractive commissions by cutting red tape, handling paper work and removing the risk for Western exporters by discounting their bills in advance. Now, with trade on the increase, they have opened a new bank in Zurich...