Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...healthy citizens unless it proved necessary--unless swine flu reappeared. Since even the most violent epidemic takes some weeks to spread, and since the government's surveillance system would have provided an almost instant warning, a stockpile policy would have offered adequate protection without subjecting anyone to unnecessary risk...
...union actions. A "cost-plus" philosophy governs the oil companies' buying policies and labor expenditure decisions--companies are assured that cost-overruns will not decrease their profits. "Cost-plus" is in one sense an inducement essential to getting companies to invest large amounts of capital in a high risk situation, but from another perspective, it removes the pressure on companies that would ordinarily cause them to keep a lid on wage demands and seek the greatest possible worker efficiency. "Cost-plus" guarantees that the consumer will pay the tab, not the company...
...read this as either a relief or a tragedy, the supply of eager fighters seems to outstrip the demand. The back pages of the winter '77 issue are filled with classified ads like "Vietnam vet, experienced, seeks high-risk, high-pay work anywhere in the world." The seekers are the sad legacy of Vietnam. They know how to fight, but not what to fight for--unless the draft or a soldier's salary is a good basis for killing people. The ads do not read, "Good soldier seeks just and true cause to support...
...There's nothing you can do that does not involve risk. Aspirin involves a higher risk than a swine flu shot," he said...
Langmuir said he "liked the idea" of stockpiling a sufficient amount of the vaccine to inoculate every adult and only administering the vaccine to high-risk people--the old and those with respiratory diseases--but that this option was politically undesirable...