Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...involuntarily if necessary; we should not ask the young men to pay our taxes for us. The draft should not be used as a means of shifting the financial burden of war or preparedness onto the same young men who are selected to carry the burden of risk and disrupted careers. The "cost" of attracting the 2.5 or 2.75 million enlistees in peace-time is not really saved when we draft them; it is merely shifted, in the form of lower wages, from taxpayers to the men in the service...
Because Radcliffe has been operating a budget deficit of $100,000 each year, which has been made up by dipping into capital, Mrs. Bunting was reluctant to risk a still greater loss. She assured the girls that she and administrative officials were working on economy measures to allow more girls off-campus. "But we will not run a bigger deficit, raise room rates for everyone in the dorms, and lower the standards of dorm living to allow a few individuals to have apartments," she insisted...
...order "to preserve an entity identifiable as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea." There is every reason to believe that if American armies again threaten to destroy a buffer state allied with China--in this case, North Vietnam--Peking will not hesitate to intervene, even at the risk of provoking American bombing of the Chinese mainland...
...attempts to define more clearly a program for social change. Second, assuming SDS can develop a radical movement among adults, it must decide whether to absorb them into the present organization or split them off into a "Movement for a Democratic Society." In either case, students will risk domination by the older radicals. Third, there may be very serious limits to the application of participatory democracy to larger memberships. At the national council meeting, SDS members from the newer chapters complained that the participatory democracy of the session was "not even as democratic as most forms of representative democracy...
...major forms of protest that have evolved this year, the summer organizing project is likely to have a far more extensive political effect than the draft resistance; it is much easier for the average student dissenter to speak against the war than to risk jail or permanent expatriation as the price of dissidence. Also, most of those who have pledged not to serve in this war have not limited themselves to this kind of protest -- and will actively support Vietnam Summer...