Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provoked full-scale intervention by China, perhaps with Russian support. Such intervention might not have happened, many military men argue, if the U.S. had confined itself to a far more weighty air offensive. But no one could be sure of this, and the Administration at the time judged the risk too great. Besides, Russians and Chinese could have found many means of aiding Hanoi short of rushing armies into the fight. Given South Viet Nam's porous border and long coastline, the mere resort to more systematic bombing would not have sealed off the movement of supplies from...
Sincere Desire. Cannily, Yahya has left himself two important powers to ensure that Pakistan's often obdurate politicians do not make a hash of the process. By limiting the length of the constitutional convention, he hopes to force the delegates to get on with the job or risk new elections. By reserving the right to approve the finished constitution, he intends to prevent the enactment of provisions that could lead to turmoil or shatter Pakistan's unity. Two other provisions he has made appear to demonstrate Yahya's sincere desire to restore civilian rule...
Think about automobile insurance, which is required in this state. The rates are exorbitantly high (8400-8600 a year) because the companies must be covered for the high risk cases. But the companies, in our free society, are allowed to turn anyone down for insurance that they want to. They turn down the kids and the poor. Only insurance companies that never pay up on damage insure these people. Think about how impossible it would be to clear up the legislation on Massachusetts's compulsory insurance...
Kuznetsov's detractors, enjoying the safety of New York and London, are scarcely in a position to demand that a Soviet writer risk his liberty, and perhaps his life, by making open protests on Soviet soil...
Oddly enough. the entire controversy has developed about a junior who averaged only three points a game last year and spent a significant amount of time on the bench. Yale insisted on his right to play and agreed to risk the consequences despite his lackluster performance...