Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over-emphasizing the importance of community work, radical civil rights groups risk isolating the community to the point where it is a self-contained unit which perpetuates some of the worst aspects of the ghetto, Mrs. Ansara said. "I deplore the distorted emphasis which has been put on people 'doing things for themselves;' we must reach out to help each other...
Communist parties in the free world also bitterly denounced the events in Peking. The Japanese Reds, reportedly ordered by Mao himself to risk their cherished legality by initiating a campaign of terrorist attacks, responded by purging pro-Peking leaders and tearing down pictures of Mao. The French Communist newspaper l'Humanité said the new wave is "stirring disquiet and stupefaction in our ranks." Asked a Spanish Communist spokesman: "What winds of madness are these, sullying the authentic Chinese revolution...
...rate, short selling is no game for novices or the fainthearted. The most that a buyer of stock stands to lose, even if his shares crash to zero, is his original investment. But the short seller's risk is unlimited, since technically there is no ceiling on how high a stock can rise...
...market turned down again on the final trading day, with the industrial average losing 4.40 points to close the week at 787.69 for a modest 7.13-point gain. Still, a drop is traditional before holiday weekends, when professionals lighten their risk by lightening their holdings...
...distinct feature of the new liability trend is to "shift the risk" to the defendant who can insure against it on the largest scale. Detroit auto engineers would probably not be held personally liable, for example, since the theory is that big auto companies can take out insurance against defective design and spread the cost among hundreds of thousands of purchasers, each of whom is charged a few more cents for his new car. In addition, today's wise manufacturer ignores his own heady advertising and urges customers to return defective products for repairs, thus giving him the information...