Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chairman Robert Strauss was more than enthusiastic. He thanked the platform writers for making a "dramatic and magnificent and positive impression." To reporters he cracked: "I'm trying to get a minority report on something, but I'm not having any luck." Strauss joked about the joyous risk that the unusual degree of harmony might become a wet blanket of ennui at Madison Square Garden: "I'm not bored a bit. I might just sit in the background and drink a little whisky." In fact, with the nomination virtually settled, Carter will have to use some imagination...
...McGovern's 1972 fiasco with Senator Tom Eagleton, after the resignation of Spiro Agnew, after the ascension of unelected Gerald Ford. A study on the subject, released this week by Harvard's Kennedy Institute, maintained that "the present selection practices contain an inherent and unacceptable degree of risk." The odds are now 1 to 2, the study judges, that the Vice President will one day become President...
Mental Difficulty. Brownco proposed to undertake the drilling under the ground rules that have made the oil industry, and Houston, for that matter, what it is today. The company would sink exploratory wells at its own risk and turn over a royalty payment of up to 35% of the value of any strike, to be divided equally between the city and the Hogg estate. If, as the city fathers hope, there is oil and gas in the ground worth $50-$60 million, Houston would thus benefit from a large windfall. As Brownco and the city saw it, the exploratory wells...
Executives of the crisis-prone Lockheed Aircraft Corp. are well aware of the risk in seeing a light at the end of the tunnel: they can never tell when it might be another freight train heading Lockheed's way. Last week, however, the light that Chairman Robert W. Haack saw turned out to be for real. Lockheed's 24 creditor banks approved a plan to restructure the company's debt in a way that clearly eases the aerospace giant's financial woes, though it does not solve them...
...already know Karl Muhlbach, the middle-aged insurance executive and widower who developed a quiet obsession with pre-Columbian art. An innately cool eye for authenticity got him started. Muhlbach's sudden desire to possess statuary caused him embarrassment. In Double Honeymoon, Muhlbach again decides to take a risk within limits. This time it is a brief fling with a beautiful young girl every bit as exotic and cracked as a piece of pre-Columbian pottery...