Word: risked
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Mere Intimidation. There is no evidence that Moscow is planning a military offensive against the U.S. or the Atlantic Alliance, and it is widely assumed that the Kremlin would not now risk U.S. nuclear retaliation. Some experts, however, are not so certain. Malcolm R. Currie, Pentagon director of research and engineering, warned at a Washington press conference last week that "it would be a fundamental mistake" to believe that Soviet leaders view a nuclear war as unthinkable...
...pressure point could develop, as it did over Berlin and Cuba. This time, the Soviets not only would be stronger, but might also conclude that America's determination to live up to its commitments has been weakened by setbacks in Southeast Asia and southern Africa. Moscow might then risk making tough demands, on the theory that it no longer needs to fear humiliation-or defeat...
...debt of dishonor. No sooner has he finished paying off the mortgage on the Crazy Horse West than he runs up an unmanageable IOU at a Santa Monica gambling joint. To pay the debt, the gamblers put this proposition to Cosmo: snuff a Chinatown bookie. Cosmo likes the risk of the proposition. Even more, though, he enjoys the almost certain prospect of disaster. He has been looking for a way over the brink for a long time...
Kantrowitz's court would not resolve such social questions as how much risk the public is willing to accept from nuclear power plants, or how much jet aircraft noise it is willing to endure. These issues, Kantrowitz says, will always be determined on more personal or political grounds. But he believes such a court could prevent the misuse of science in deciding such issues. "Those voting on an issue will at least not be able to claim a scientific reason for their choice," he contends. "They'll have to explain it as a value judgment...
Millet was an artist, not a propagandist; his depth of feeling was as unquestionable as his lack of egotism. "I will swear to you," he wrote to a friend in 1851, "at the risk of seeming even more of a socialist, that it is the human side that touches me most . . . and it is never the joyous side that shows itself to me: I don't know where it is. I have never seen...