Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behavior commonly deemed appropriate to the respectable Islamic woman, and putting women to work, particularly in factories. The outcry was so great that the government soon abandoned this line. Many Muslims interpreted removal of the veil as a profound threat to the spirit of Islam. The government couldn't risk alienating the Muslim population and decided instead to take the opposite stand, supporting the veil as an example of the fact that Islam and socialism were ideologically compatible...
...political liability. President Ford intends to drop detente from his lexicon. "It's only a word," the President said last week. "I don't think it is applicable any more." The word may not be applicable - or politically safe - but the notion of working to reduce the risk of a U.S. -Soviet confrontation is certainly important. Yet Kissinger is being faulted for giving Moscow undue advantages in his eagerness to reach agreements...
...assumption is that the OPEC cartel will maintain high prices for oil (currently $11.56 per bbl.). Main reason: Saudi Arabia, Libya and Kuwait are cutting production rather than risk the falling prices that would accompany a global oil glut. Though the FEA study considers the theoretical impact of oil prices of $8 and $16 per bbl., it concentrates on the effects of an average price of $13 per bbl. At that level, no alternative sources of energy, not even such highly touted synthetic fuels as shale oil and liquefied coal, can compete with oil, at least...
...suck an egg. It is a great find if you haven't found it yet. Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn and a smashingly beautiful girl (whose name we can't come up with but who does the sexiest tap-dance ever) make up the small society in this Rafelson risk...
...used safely for the past 15 to 16 years. Bisbee advises: "What we say is that there is no connection between the pill and cancer." As for the diaphragm, Harvard's other most popular method, Wacker says, when used properly it is "good" but that "you still run the risk of a .5 per cent chance of getting pregnant...