Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confidence from the Faculty and Corporation. Therefore the Dean is reluctant to push the Faculty too hard for reforms. When Dean Ford says that the CEP cannot push any harder for the HPC's recommendations, then he is either against those proposals himself or he does not want to risk a Faculty reaction to "too much too fast." Students should exert greater pressure on departments to back the measures. On the whole, Harvard's Administration is pro-student while the Faculty is more reluctant to change things...
...world and its poor showing visa-vis South Korea. Moved by the desire to bolster his regime internally and win some international notice and prestige -plus his oft-stated desire to distract the U.S. from its role in Viet Nam-Kim has deliberately launched his country on a high-risk policy...
...Restraints. In pirating the Pueblo, Kim knew that discomfiting the U.S. would also undercut South Kore an President Park-and thought that the risk was worth it. Risks are, of course, a relative matter. A hypermil-itant, fanatical minipower such as North Korea does not feel the restraints that are imposed upon the Soviet Union or the U.S. It has no interest in maintaining the tradition of freedom of the seas for its own minuscule coastal navy, nor does it carry the burden of an atomic arsenal. Past masters of propaganda, the North Koreans can be expected to wring...
...Judy had been driving on the murder night. What's more, he was a strange, unpopular kid and had been convicted of rape three years before. There was so much prejudice against him that his court-appointed attorney doubted that an impartial jury could be impaneled. Rather than risk it, he asked that his client be tried before two Allegany County circuit court judges...
Many businessmen still flatly refuse to extend credit to anyone under 21, but the ranks of those willing to take the risk are swelling. And why not? Teen-age consumers not only account for an annual bonanza of some $15 billion, but putting them on the credit rolls seems a good way to capture future customers. As a result, more and more members of the Now Generation are finding it possible to pay later: at stores across the U.S., nearly 1,500,000 teen-agers have their own charge accounts, a 36% increase in just 18 months...