Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profit-sharing provisions for workers. As important as these economic reforms is the Gaullist intent to force center groups sandwiched between the Gaullists and the left in the National Assembly either to make common cause with the Gaullists, or take the blame for defeating the government bill and thus risk new elections...
...Marathon, seemed in good health and bore no traces of abusive treatment. The old man would probably be released soon, like most of the other politicians. Son Andreas, however, faced a more problematical future. He was accused of high treason and, though it seemed unlikely that the military would risk provoking his followers and outraging foreign opinion by executing him, he might be subjected to a long prison term or exile. As for the Communists, they were being shifted to old detention centers on the Aegean isles of Yioura and Ayios Evstratios, there to be carefully screened and questioned...
...customs, assigned four officials and two armed guards to meet each art work. Heated trucks were on stand-by duty 24 hours a day to transport the pieces to the Expo site because, as the Canadian advisory committee's general secretary, Jean Jacques Besner, says, "We could not risk allowing any of these lovely ladies by Delacroix to catch cold...
...letters, Love declared that the bill tightened as well as liberalized the law, by limiting abortions to licensed, accredited hospitals and requiring approval by a medical panel. As for widely voiced fears that Colorado might become an "abortion mecca," Love was confident that physicians and hospitals would not risk their reputations and accreditations by lightly approving abortions for transients...
...honest and work, you can get money") than competitors charged that he was turning his bank into an undignified "hock shop." They jeered that before long he would be fleeced out of business. Tonello insisted that "the Italian man on the street is as good a credit risk as his counterpart in London and New York...