Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often apologizes. Whether it is out of Christian charity or practical considerations is unclear. Carter is supremely ambitious, self-confident and stubborn ?qualities that are both helpful and potentially divisive in a President. Going with Carter is clearly a greater gamble. His supporters would claim that to risk nothing is also to gain nothing...
...endorsing anybody. According to E & P, whose questionnaire was answered by 38% of U.S. dailies, 411 dailies with 30 million circulation back Ford. They tend to emphasize that he is a known quantity. Backing Carter are 80 dailies with 7.6 million circulation. They frequently acknowledge that he is a risk and must be taken on faith. Who's for whom...
...course, Ford and no one else would be responsible for convincing the American people that his go-slow approach was best. It would be a considerable challenge. By constantly saying no to the Democratic Congress, Ford would risk being accused of negativism. What is more, Ford has only rarely shown the flashes of eloquence-as during his acceptance speech in Kansas City-that he would need to win public opinion to his stand. But one of Ford's greatest assets is his rock-solid confidence. He would begin his Administration utterly convinced that his views were right for America...
Western economists hope that the oil cartel is aware of all this and will not take the risk of triggering another world recession. Says one expert: "OPEC members have realized that their rapidly expanding economies depend on the industrial world." The betting right now is for a 10% rise in the price of oil-which would, ironically enough, elicit a sigh of relief from all the nations that will have to pay the growing fuel bill...
...contest for the World Driving Championship when they came to the final race of the season, the Japanese Grand Prix. At the foot of Mount Fuji, the matter was decided, not on the track but in the minds of the two drivers. James Hunt took on the risk of racing through rain into fog-shrouded turns. Niki Lauda could not accept the dangers. Hunt finished the race in third place, scoring four points and claiming the driver's crown. Lauda pulled into the pits after one lap, surrendering his title and, with it, the mystique that drivers never...