Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more people; while TV now puts office seekers in every living room, the enormous cost drains party budgets. Given most voters' financial apathy, the net result is a qualification for office unspecified in the Constitution: a candidate must now be rich or have rich friends or run the risk of making himself beholden to big contributors by accepting their big contributions...
...some women, an increased tendency for blood clots to form in inflamed leg veins. From there, they may travel to the lungs. A committee on drug safety studied every suspected case it could find in Britain and concluded that a woman taking such pills "incurs a slightly increased risk of developing thromboembolic disorders, but that risk is small, and less than the risks from ordinary pregnancy and delivery that these contraceptives are intended to prevent...
...getting longer and more complex, it may run the risk not only of becoming pretentious but also of losing out on commercially vital radio exposure and outdistancing its mass audience. Russo, who is composing three rock cantatas which he hopes to hear performed in Chicago coffeehouses and clubs, thinks that one solution lies in underplaying the formal aspects. "I think it is just as well if the public does not know my pieces are cantatas," he says. "I for one do not intend to tell them." Stuart believes another built-in guard against obscurity is the plain fact that "there...
...ride aboard the spacecraft, in the bodies of the astronauts or in moon rocks that they will carry back. Such bugs, against which man has developed no immunity or medicines, could conceivably cause a catastrophic plague on earth. "We know that we're dealing with a low-probability risk and that no one really expects life to be found on the moon," says NASA's Dr. Walter W. Kemmerer Jr. "Yet the best way to preserve life is to freeze...
...countries overseas, the U.S. has strained its resources. The resulting budget and balance-of-payments deficits are promoting inflation. Higher taxes would attack these problems, and so would reducing expenditures at home or abroad. Business wants to see the main emphasis on the latter course because it avoids the risk of expanding government to the detriment of the more productive private sector of the economy. What the economy needs most right now is a sense-making approach to income and outgo in the federal budget...