Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of investing money in high-risk, low-return areas has merit for individual investors,"Calkins added. "I think that to put some money where it will do some good will appeal to many people...
Unwitting Ally. After Daley's television apologia, Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III came forth with one of the most balanced and accurate assessments of the confrontation. He did so at some risk to his political career, since any Democratic politician in the state defies Daley at his own peril. Said Stevenson: "In the Democratic convention, there was dissent and in it new hope for real change. But in Chicago, and in the Democratic party of Illinois that week, there was little room for dissent. Some 'revolutionaries' appeared on the scene, bent on provoking disorder, unwashed...
...severity: two to five days of aches, pains and fever. For the elderly and infirm, however, A-2/Hong Kong/68 poses a threat to life. With this in mind, PHS experts have advised physicians to give inoculations of either old or new vaccine only to persons who run the risk of severe complications when they come down with winter's most miserable complaint...
Eventually, Humphrey may be compelled to take that risk. As things stand, the Democratic Party is in its worst shape since 1952. Edmund Muskie, between sensible speeches to generally small crowds, has shrugged a number of times: "If we lose, I'll still be the Democratic Senator from Maine." A Gallup poll that was released last week reported that the public has far more confidence in the G.O.P. than in the Democrats, when it comes to the ability to cope with major problems. The split was 56% v. 44%. Four years ago, the Democrats led in a similar survey...
Shanker immediately declared that the agreement had been broken and that the strike was back on. At the risk of being jailed for leading a strike that was illegal under state law, he also raised the stakes by insisting that his teachers would not work unless McCoy and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville com mittee are fired. "Mob rule must go," he said. Leaders of the local committee conceded that they no longer could control neighborhood opposition to the return of the teachers and did not intend to try. At week's end the schools were again shut down...