Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAVE A SOLDIER (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). An ABC News color documentary chronicling the work of helicopter pilots, doctors and flight nurses who daily risk their lives evacuating and treating the wounded in Viet...
...General Electric and eleven A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions seemed hopelessly deadlocked. Then, with only 60 hours to go before 125,000 workers were scheduled to strike, G.E. raised its offer by a tiny amount; though the raise fell far short of their demands, union leaders seized it rather than risk an 80-day Taft-Hartley-Act injunction against the walkout...
...Administration's current tight-money policy had no part in those troubles. They began in 1962, when the bank began backing home-repair work, peddled on the installment plan by a number of Detroit building concerns to lowincome, high-risk customers. In all, Public had committed $66 million to such risky loans-a dangerously high amount for a bank of Public's size. Too many of the loans turned sour. McGuire admitted that $1,000,000 alone was lost in defaulted commercial paper bought from four local building outfits; as it happened, Public Bank Director Harry Granader...
...true that many inventions will not have an obvious application, and that firms will not take the risk of developing the product without patent protection. The CRIMSON, however, failed to point out that President Kennedy's memorandum in 1963 specifically directed the federal agencies to grant patents to the inventor where exclusive ownership was necessary incentive to call forth risk capital to bring the invention to the point of practical application. Of the six patent bills pending before Congress in 1965, five, including Senator Long's bill, allow for this exception. Kenneth A. Plevan...
...taking quite a risk," says Al Zavelle, the Coop's new merchandising manager. "If we put on all this pressure and then the books aren't there, we'll be in for a lot of criticism. But I'm sure...