Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Growth. Expansion in the U.S. and abroad and diversification into other businesses have drastically slowed at almost all banks. As far back as a year ago, A.W. Clausen, head of Bank of America, warned his fellow bankers: "Recent rates of growth can be sustained only at a possible risk of eroding future strength and stability." Now J. Richard Fredericks, a bank analyst in San Francisco, puts it more pithily: "Gogo banking...
London saw the hard-line policy as a necessary risk. With public morale and confidence sagging, Wilson wanted to present the image of an angry, fed-up government ready to take all measures necessary to contain the violence. This is particularly crucial since Parliament this week begins an important debate on the Ulster situation. The Government does not believe it can impose a political settlement in Ulster, since all previous attempts have failed. But it is prepared to support an emergency interim coalition government of Catholics and Protestants for the province during the present security crisis...
...certain high-risk specialties, the increase was even more staggering. For example, Dr. Paul Muchnic, a Los Angeles orthopedist, found that his premiums had suddenly risen from $6,500 to $36,000 a year. He angrily announced that he was quitting his $65,000-a-year practice. Others have pulled up stakes and moved to other states where there are fewer malpractice suits, smaller judgments and thus more reasonable insurance rates...
...Cancer Risk. Precedent is on their side. Since 1944 the U.S. has honored bilateral agreements to accept airworthiness certificates awarded to foreign aircraft by their governments-as long as the planes meet standards established by the International Convention on Civil Aviation. In recent years, the French and British have accepted American evaluations of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar without argument. Now they clearly expect the U.S. to do the same with the Concorde, which has undergone more than 5,000 hours of exhaustive flight testing and has been certified...
...Fluor, 54, a grandson of the firm's founder, was taking a calculated risk that business would somehow pick up again. But that came naturally to a man with a stable of 25 race horses and a reputation for patience, even under pressure. His prescience paid off when oil prices started to skyrocket at the end of 1973. Suddenly, energy projects that had previously seemed uneconomic looked profitable, and Fluor had skilled engineers ready to do the work. The jobs were immense: a $1.4 billion contract to build twelve pumping stations and the Valdez terminal for the trans-Alaska...