Word: risked
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Ronald Reagan has come out flatly against abortion on demand and in favor of the constitutional amendment outlawing abortion except in rare cases posing a clear risk to the woman's life...
...Concorde have charged it would reduce the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere that protects the earth from ultraviolet rays, thereby increasing the incidence of nonfatal skin cancer. Coleman judged that the stratospheric impact of the 16 months of test flights would be "minuscule," and the slight risk of causing additional cases of the disease-which he called "speculation"-was not enough to reject landing rights for the Concorde...
Noting that "any new technology brings with it a certain degree of risk," Coleman concluded that the Concorde's prospective benefits were worth the chance. An outright ban, he said, would be a blow to Britain and France, two allies that had sunk $2.8 billion into the Concorde. Further, Coleman claimed that turning down the Concorde "may well be condemning for all time or delaying for decades what might be a very significant technological advance for mankind." Second-generation Concordes, he said, could be quieter and less harmful to the environment...
...Assume risk of loss rather than insuring Fine Arts in Dumbarton Oaks Museum--value $7,978,588--Annual premium and record of losses last 10 years. (Fogg and Peabody do not insure Harvard owned Fine Arts...
LIFESTYLE. While such personal habits as smoking and drinking alcohol have long been linked with cancer, the researchers noted an intriguing new finding: for people who both drink and smoke, the risk of cancer appears to rise proportionately higher than for those who do only one of these things. The report also implicates diet; for example, the incidence of bowel cancer seems to increase with the amount of meat and fatty foods consumed. Cancer may also be linked with dietary deficiencies; one researcher pointed out that an absence of vitamin A may contribute to the development of several kinds...