Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, one points is certain: no one will know which ideas work until they have been tried. Urban schools must start experimenting. But even here there are snags. Education is one of the most touchy subjects in American politics and few city officials are willing to risk failure. "When you do research with children," shudders one school official, "all hell breaks loose...
...more." Homosexuality is currently a major concern of youngsters of both sexes, though most programs try to postpone extended treatment of the seamy side of sex-VD, abortion, perversion-until a positive image has been established in the youngster's mind. Girls tend to worry about the risk of pregnancy and the pain of childbirth ("Can't we just adopt a baby?" they often...
Tender offers-predominantly for cash in an affluent age-have grown popular because they can be sprung swiftly at comparatively small risk and cost for the attacker, are less likely than ordinary mergers to run afoul of Government antitrust obstacles. Ordinarily, the cost of a tender offer runs no higher than 3% of the deal-for legal fees, a splurge of advertising to woo stockholders, and interest charges on temporary financing, if it is needed. While proxy fights often turn into marathons (Realty Developer Philip Levin's battle with MGM is now more than a year...
...order to keep on driving, many such motorists have been forced to buy more costly insurance from so-called "high-risk" companies. Since 1960, more than 75 high-risk firms have gone into bankruptcy, leaving 300,000 claimants holding the bag for at least $100 million-and giving the whole industry a bad name. In California, where 950-ODD companies now write auto-insurance policies, Deputy Insurance Commissioner Harry Miller says: "If we could just cut that to 900, and pick the 50 we'd get rid of, we could cut out 95% of our complaints...
Moreover, with each passing year, the state's case became stronger. Sargeant could make the claim that the DPW had to move on the Inner Belt, or risk not completing the road by 1972 and thereby forfeiting millions of dollars in federal funds (the Interstate Highway program, financing 90 per cent of the Inner Belt, was scheduled to stop then...