Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointive level, Harvard professors frequently obtain positions of influence in the federal government without abandoning their tenure on the faculty, and no questions of impropriety are raised. If they seek elective office, however, they apparently run the risk of drawing fire...
...play is so good that the temptation is to tell Barrymore stories instead of trying, and invariably failing, to pin down the perfect mixture of comedy, seriousness and satire that makes it the exhilarating production that it is. The risk of misrepresenting it is too great...
...first shots of Milos Forman's movie--grainy, solemn, self-consciously non-colorful--make clear that this Cuckoo will not foist off a super-super allegory of a nut-fram, but a real Oregon mental hospital, in all its disturbing bleakness and isolation. This interpretive risk pays off, and, except for a few "bigger than life" episodes that don't translate in this true-to-life context, the whole picture comes across with much more sincerity than the Kesey original. And in this troubling, de-romanticized setting Jack Nicholson's swagger says it all about the type of guys...
...Carter's program for the United States remains, fundamentally, a plan devised in the tradition of the Democratic party: it offers a compassionate, risk-taking federal government that recognizes what joblessness means to a human being. It offers a government that could transcend the cozy goal of preserving international "stability"--which often means active support of military or oligarchic regimes in struggling nations--and insist on integrating human rights considerations into foreign policy. And it offers a sensitivity to the rights of minorities, to the consequences of an unfair--or, as Carter says, "disgraceful"--tax structure, and to the suicidal...
...jumbo jetliners in order for the program to break even. By 1972, however, the wide-bodied airline market appeared to be saturated; competition was fierce. Not only were the $250 million U.S. guaranteed loans in jeopardy, but another $400 million of unguaranteed loans from private banks were at serious risk...