Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fairness. Specifically, the N.Y.S.E. board of governors ruled that "negotiations leading to acquisitions and mergers, stock splits, the making of arrangements preparatory to an exchange or tender offer, changes in dividend rates or earnings, calls for redemption, new contracts, products or discoveries, are the type of developments where the risk of untimely and inadvertent disclosure of corporate plans is most likely to occur." Such activities may be kept secret by top management, but secrecy is less and less possible because "at some point it usually becomes necessary to involve persons other than top management." At that point, according...
Only pseudo liberals and enemies of Africa can seriously advocate organized trips into Biafra with the avowed purpose of forcing American intervention in favour of secession. For quite apart from the risk of creating another Vietnam, such action can only condemn Africa to permanent underdevelopment. An Africa based on tribal units has no chance. Only our enemies can knowingly encourage African fragmentation while they themselves enjoy the fruits of unity in their own countries. Omafume Onoge Teaching Fellow Social Relations Dept...
...Afterward the participants sat down and again gave their impressions of the experience. "A lot of people begin to own up to the fact that it is hard for them to give love, affection and support to others," McGaw said. "Others surprise themselves at how Christian and giving and risk-taking they...
Kipling's instructions are clear enough: ;'If you can make one heap of all your winnings;/ And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings . . ." Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's scapegrace uncle, could do all of this and did, time after time, with astonishingly consistent results. He kept on losing...
Working often from documents, of the period and contemporary, Babe has managed to chew on man of the principles of American politics and through them, illustrate those of world history--the frenzied ideology of race, the underlying economic basis of exploitation. At great risk to themselves the Chestnut household insists on appropriating black labor to work its fields; this is satisfying both on an economic level and on the undefinable level at which the Southern family feels more natural and right with black help around...