Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROBERT RISK...
Actually, Johnson could have tempered the current excesses by calling for higher taxes early this year-and then he could have rescinded the tax hike before November. Now it is probably too close to election for him to risk a tax increase, unless a major expansion in Viet Nam spending leaves him no other choice. Instead, the President has fought inflation by using the old jawbone technique and several new devices, including the speedup in withholding taxes. Most important, he has depended on Chairman William McChesney Martin and the Federal Reserve Board to cool off the economy by tightening credit...
...cultural prequisites of obvious less-privileged groups. Moreover, would you not reintroduce many of the invidious distinctions you in fact condemn by yur proposal that the Peace Corps are related projects be considered as an exact equivalent to the draft? After all, these options have a far lower risk to life and limb than the armed services, and the armed forces require a much more unattractive (sometimes mindless) discipline--and this is not even considering the question of the present...
...John Collins and Endicott Peabody, Brooke will again be content to sit safely on his consensus policies, successful public record, and personal image. "With my law background, I believe in thinking issues out through research and then publishing a statement, rather than jumping into debate," explains Brooke, who would risk his clear lead by discussing specific issues...
...husband Carlo, a foppish ne'er-do-well, died in 1785; Napoleon was essentially his mother's creation. "France is ablaze," she told him as a youth, "but it is a noble bonfire, my son, and worth the risk of getting burnt." Icily realistic, she threw cold water on his early sizzling success. "Let's hope it lasts," she said at his coronation. Later she advised against involvement in Spain and Russia, Napoleon's two biggest mistakes. Eerily vatic, she was "informed" of his death on the very day it happened, 5,000 miles away...