Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Goyette thinks such fears are ill-founded. "If you walk across Mass Ave you might get hit by a truck, too," he said. Jacobsen acknowledges that he can make no guarantees, but said that with careful planning the construction can be almost risk-free...
...Indochina, are caused by surrender to the Soviet Union-or China-but can be the result of local forces. Moreover, he feels it would be "criminally irresponsible" for the U.S. to refuse communication with the U.S.S.R. as Solzhenitsyn desires, "for communication is the only way to control the risk of total destruction...
...Retaliate against the Cubans with diplomatic, economic or military pressure, and thus run the risk of appearing to back the Smith government...
...media, including their accessibility to those who would mislead them. Simply to demonstrate the gullability of any human system is, in the final analysis, meaningless. A far more worthwhile program would be to emphasize the need for truthfulness and straightforwardness by all media users, even at the risk of not making self-fulfilling prophesies. John O. Northrop Despina Vodantis Birmingham, Alabama Board of Education...
Perhaps the greatest risk involves the public, with its skeptical attitude toward the press and (in a different sense) toward Hollywood, both forces that shape American reality. Is the press, as seen through Watergate, by and large telling the truth about America? Is Hollywood telling the truth about the press? And do both deserve praise for it? Those are among the questions that Redford, perhaps not deliberately, raises with his remarkable movie. His own answer is obviously yes?and he is asking a huge audience to agree with...