Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said Humphrey: "As President, I would stop the bombing as an acceptable risk for peace because I believe it could lead to success in the negotiations and thereby shorten the war." The Vice President added: "In weighing that risk, and before taking action, I would place key importance on evidence-direct or indirect-by word or deed-of Communist willingness to restore the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Viet Nam. If the government of North Viet Nam were to show bad faith, I would reserve the right to resume the bombing...
...institution to depart from the standards of general critical opinion in forming a collection is a risky business. The success of the exhibit depends on the artistic and photographic judgment of the organizer of the show. M.I.T. took the risk, trusting in the photographic vision of their resident photo-genius, Minor White...
...Worth a Risk. Since he took office, McNamara said, "I have been determined on one thing: that the bank can and will act. It will not share in the general paralysis afflicting aid efforts in so many parts of the world." Using an industrial term that harks back to his days as a Ford Whiz Kid, McNamara proposed that the bank increase its "throughput"-the total amount of money that the bank borrows from private lenders or gets from governments and then doles out in loans-to $10 billion in the next five years. Of that sum, large chunks would...
...will consider bank activities for the next 30 years. McNamara hopes the Pearson group will be as ambitious for the World Bank as he himself is. "All power is given us to be used," he told his governors this week, "not to be wrapped in a napkin against risk...
...result, most efficient men diplomatically try to appear less efficient than they are. Not Robert McNamara. The ablest of the nation's Secretaries of Defense refused to play "Lovable Bob" for Congressmen, some of whom did not forgive him. Now he is running something of the same risk with his reading public. The Essence of Security is not the gossipy memoir or the in-fighter's recollection that many readers might prefer. Rather it is a businesslike assembly of "policy statements," a kind of memo to the American people, culled from recent reports and speeches. McNamara is regrettably...