Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international body and an electoral commission, including representatives of the National Liberation Front, to supervise the elections. Thus far, the Communists have denounced that as "perfidious trickery," apparently because it is too vague. It is more likely that they really do not yet feel politically strong enough to risk elections, no matter how fairly conducted...
West Germany's labor troubles may well reflect political opportunism more than anything else. As national elections neared, workers knew that the government would jump to settle with strikers rather than risk disorders. Sure enough, hardly had some 25,000 metalworkers and 50,000 coal workers walked off their jobs than they won wage hikes of 11% and 13% respectively. What bothered Germans more than the size of the settlements, however, was the fact that both were won in wildcat strikes -a tactic almost never used by West Germany's well-disciplined labor unions. Some businessmen wondered aloud...
...prevented from doing so by Charles de Gaulle's insistence that Britain live up to its contract. France's new President Georges Pompidou may be more amenable to the idea. As for the Soviet entry, it is largely an unreal threat; no Western airline could risk relying on Russia for spare parts...
Similar U.S. attempts in the past have proved frustrating, largely because drug smuggling is a high-profit, low-risk trade. The new treasure of the Sierra Madre is a traditional sideline crop for thousands of small Mexican farmers. They get up to 40 times as much for a kilo of the prized "Acapulco Gold" as they do for a kilo of corn. In Guerrero state, eager peasants using fertilizer and irrigation can harvest four crops a year. In Tijuana, enterprising merchants package marijuana in 1.8-kilo bricks -gift-wrapped at Christmas time-that cost $35 and contain enough...
RASHLY, perhaps, I decided to risk the multiple legal and professional dangers of smoking pot. But how to find the stuff? My first discovery was that one turns out to have a lot of Jekyll-Hyde friends, who jekyll in the straight world and hyde when they are smoking grass...