Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spending. Some businessmen also fault the incentives. Ben Heineman, president of Northwest Industries and a Democrat, fears that if business were to receive tax subsidies but fail to root out social problems, it "could be set up as the goat of the next ten years." That is precisely the risk that businessmen run when working in Washington. The greater their voice in setting national policy, the more they will share the credit for U.S. triumphs-and the blame for failures...
Other colleges with financial resources more limited than Harvard's will be harder hit by the general reduction in Federal aid to students. "The state, the small community college has taken the greatest risk [in recruiting disadvantaged students]," Gunness said...
...example, factual and quantifiable date. In the choice of pare topics, preference is given to small questions which can be easily researched and for which a complete answer can be developed in the limited time available. In order to assure a short-run payoff, the student tends to minimize risk by restricting his field of inquiry. As a result, the larger framework and context of his studies is taken for grated. Thus grades play a significant role in the perpetuation of the status quo in social inquiry. To this we object...
...naval blockade of Haiphong or Sihanoukville in Cambodia, the two biggest ports of entry for enemy materiel. The most likely choice, however, is an intensification of the ground war in South Viet Nam, perhaps marked by a large-scale American offensive. None of these courses is without risk, either military or political, and much will depend on the recommendations that Mel Laird brings back to Washington this week...
...defense concepts. "Their deployment," Bethe said recently, "will probably be determined by our ABM system. How long our ABM could keep ahead of them is open to question. It may be a few years?or months." Other specialists point out that if the Chinese really wanted to risk obliteration, ABM would not be an insuperable barrier. They could smuggle in the parts of nuclear bombs and use saboteurs rather than missiles. Either the Chinese or the Russians could attempt germ warfare if they feared nuclear defeat. Short-range attacks from submarines sneaking close to the coasts is also a possibility?...