Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the Arm. Nevertheless, if he is to achieve Rooseveltian results, Johnson is aware that he will eventually have to risk losing some elements of the great consensus he has forged. "There will be times," he has said, "when I'll have to make difficult decisions between busi ness and labor. I know that. You have to do these things...
...most exacting domestic test. Less than two weeks after Dallas, he was discussing his program at "The Elms," the house he had occupied as Vice President. Several advisers told him the odds were 60 to 40 against passage of the Kennedy-sponsored rights bill, advised him not to risk his still uncertain prestige by pushing too hard for it. For a long moment, Johnson was silent, but then he asked: "What's the presidency for?" Obviously, to command. With his determined driving, the Senate overrode the hard core of Southern Democrats with whom Lyndon had often voted...
...triple company profits, from $13 million to $36 million. His salary at Merck is $129,800 a year. He holds 21,000 shares of Merck stock (now $45.50 a share), not counting options, and as of last week he had not decided whether he would keep it (and thereby risk conflict-of-interest criticism), put it in trust or sell it, assuming the Senate confirms his appointment next month...
...Christian churches. But the rate of increase for most denominations today is somewhat below the general population growth, and many church leaders wonder how many of their faithful are the occidental equivalent of "rice Christians"-those who would abandon their faith the moment membership involved real commitment or risk...
...academy's prescription: amend the law to permit "therapeutic abortion where there is a substantial risk that the continuance of pregnancy would gravely impair the physical or mental health of the mother, or that the child would be born with grave physical or mental defects." As safeguards, the academy would require prior approval of an operation by a committee of hospital doctors, and the abortion would have to be done by a licensed physician under the usual safe, sterile conditions in a hospital...