Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Included among Arrow's well known works are Social Choice and Individual Value, Studies in Linear and Non-Linear Programming, and Aspects of the Theory of Risk-Bearing. He also co-edited Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences and has done research in such diverse fields as education and medical economic theory...
...sharp rock howling with pain, who is too stupid to get up." Then he ordered his department of health and welfare to find out how many of the state's welfare recipients would be willing to go out and work in the fields to harvest or risk losing their benefits...
...Contest Against Shadows. Noting Kennedy's obsessive risk taking, his compulsive rudeness and his legendary ruthlessness, Shannon offers the familiar explanation: they resulted from a lifelong "contest against shadows" that were cast by his older brothers and his strong-willed father. In a family that dismissed second best as no better than last, Bobby developed from what one acquaintance called "a hell of a nice little boy" into what Shannon describes as a ferocious, "mildly sadistic" competitor who inherited "a certain natural savagery" from his father...
...Students' Committee on Houses set a goal of 50 to 75 letters of commitment in each House. "If we can't get that many people to take a risk, then obviously it's not worth fighting for parietals and we have failed," Katz said
This, it seems, is also official Washington's policy since the President would otherwise be willing to accept the risk of temporary casualties in the South with the knowledge that negotiations would bring about an eventual cease-fire...