Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risk was that the U.S. command could switch scrip at any time and thus leave speculators holding worthless paper-which is exactly what happened last week. Inside their bases, American personnel were instructed to cash in their MFCs for a series of crisp new ones. They were allowed to exchange up to $250 worth, with no questions asked, but had to give a strict accounting of how they had acquired any MFCs above that amount...
...crab-grass and bits of broken pavement. The auditorium had about 3000 people in it when Wallace arrived, and the seats were arranged in a square with no one in the middle and no one behind the speaker's platform. This arrangement is designed to cut down on the risk of assassination, and also to reduce the contact between Wallace's supporters and the hecklers, who had turned out today in some numbers...
...risk-pool," financed by businesses in the greater Boston area, is used to grant loans to these "marginal people," thereby helping Unity to overcome this problem...
...succeed, "it must be treated as an irrelevancy. In order for people at this bank to be free to perform, they must be mentally free. This compex can't be allowed to immobilize us. Every time someone comes in here I can't think "We mustn't take this risk because we are a new black bank...
...true policies often seem equally vague to many voters. Not that taking hard positions on hard problems is easy; more and more national problems have grown so complicated that solutions stump and split the most informed experts. Moreover, a candidate must simplify such problems for the public, and inevitably risk turning complexities into divisive emotions...