Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beirut's stock exchange also closed. So did department stores and shops, bringing business in the city close to a standstill. Finally, the government pledged its $200 million reserves (mostly in gold) to bail out all the banks but Intra, which it feared might involve too large a risk. When the other banks reopened, the panic subsided...
...Fortune Cookie. Director Billy Wilder has taken the very rash risk in this film of spiking his big gun. In Cookie he keeps Jack Lemmon, a funnyman-in-motion who lacks the instincts of a sit-down comedian, sitting in a wheelchair that makes him seem foolish but never funny. With Lemmon immobilized, only a miracle could save the show from being as sedative as Wilder's last picture, Kiss Me, Stupid. Fortunately, something like a miracle is at hand: Walter Matthau. A magnificent comic actor too long misused as a minor cinemenace, Matthau last year played such...
This is not a triumph for "consensus politics," but a dangerous split that restricts America's foreign policy. The Administration runs the risk of "escalated frustration." As long as the war drags on, both "hawks" and "doves" become increasingly disappointed and call for increasing drastic measures. The split between them widens, and the Administration, seeking to accommodate both sides, continues to vacillate...
Section 220 of the Federal Housing Act of 1954 authorizes the FHA Commissioner to insure mortgages of "high risk" projects if their goal is the elimination of slum areas. The Committee Report accompanying the law implied that these mortgaged projects should provide low-rent housing...
...first duly impressed, and then later deeply grateful for control of the army at the very moment he wished to risk a major purge. Lin's outspoken support of Mao's thought in speeches, articles, and private Party discussions apparently convinced the Chairman that Lin could be trusted with the country. Still, to insure an easy succession, Mao and Lin had to eliminate all possible opposition to Lin's rise...