Word: risked
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Industrialization need not involve private capitalism, as Soviet Russia has demonstrated, but it can scarcely succeed without many Western attitudes. Modern industry requires a measure of individual initiative, self-reliance, risk-taking. It requires a belief in progress, in the reality of the material world. Instead of a fixed order, it needs a fluid system in which people can rise through merit. It does not necessarily require democracy, although Edwin Reischauer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, points out that it must have literacy and mass communication-which usually lead people to demand more participation in their government...
Most U.S. oral surgeons have operated from outside the mouth, through the neck, usually cutting through the jaw bone to shorten or lengthen jaws. The procedure is likely to leave a scar and carries the risk of damaging a nerve, thus causing facial paralysis, and it does not permit the free repositioning of parts of the jaw. Only occasionally have U.S. surgeons operated entirely inside the mouth to move the jaw, something Dr. Obwegeser has made a standard practice. His techniques for moving and repositioning entire segments of bone, with teeth affixed, speedily correct severe defects U.S. surgeons have despaired...
Their concern is understandable. For even in childhood, mumps may occasionally cause complications leading to permanent deafness, impairment of vision, or inflammation of the brain and spinal cord. Such difficulties are more common and are likely to be more severe among adults. Grown men face the added risk that inflammation of the testicles may affect fertility...
...Javits is willing to risk all he has won for what he wryly refers to as "my vice-presidential foray." He makes no secret of coveting the nomination. "Hi, Mr. Vice President," cracked Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington when the two met aboard the Senate subway the other day. "Hi, yourself," Javits grinned, slightly embarrassed but mightily pleased. As an enthusiastic and frequent student of form at New York's Aqueduct Race Track, he knows that he belongs in the long-shot category. He also knows that handicapping politicians is, if possible, a less precise science than handicapping Thoroughbreds...
...disquieting element" in student activism is that "it is not often enough accompanied by the presentation of practical solutions to the state of affairs being protested." At Smith, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argued that "when issues are complex and ambiguous, as in Viet Nam, mass demonstrations run the risk of lowering the rationality of discussion...