Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...held by Kissinger. Yet the idea seems both faulty and dangerous when applied so obsessively to such peripheral situations as South Viet Nam and Cambodia. As U.S. policymakers argue for last-ditch aid to Cambodia, for instance, warning of worldwide repercussions if the demands are denied, they run the risk of creating selffulfilling prophecies of doom. Certainly Americans are disillusioned with their Viet Nam experience, and rightly so. They are less ready to support U.S. military aid or intervention elsewhere. But that does not mean that even the collapse of South Viet Nam would turn Americans so sour on foreign...
...proposal calls for consuming nations to set a minimum or "floor" price for imported oil that would protect the investments of companies developing new energy sources from the risk of suddenly falling crude prices. The other would achieve the same objective by levying a common tariff on oil imported from outside IEA nations. The Europeans, for their part, are looking for another method of protecting investment in energy development that would be more flexible and thus better able to meet the varying needs and capabilities of the consuming countries...
John Bunting, chairman of the First Pennsylvania bank, argues that the Government has already waited much too long to loosen up and stimulate the economy, and that the longer it dallies the greater will be the risk that it will do too much too late. Says he: "Ultimately, we will have more inflation as a result of the Administration's tolerance of high unemployment than we would have if it were thwarted right now. [Treasury Secretary] Bill Simon says that he is horrified by the size of the deficit-well, I would be horrified if the deficit were...
...help students to appreciate a host of less obvious effects of government intervention and thus reduce the risk of overlooking secondary and tertiary consequences that often destroy the value of well-intentioned programs...
Even if a clear decision has been made to develop professional programs for public service, a number of pitfalls will remain which can threaten the realization of this objective. The first of these problems is the risk of devoting disproportionate emphasis to formal analytic techniques. Among the subjects I have described, statistics, economics and the related methods of analysis may appear to have more content because they are more precise and reflect a more developed body of knowledge. Teachers in these fields are likely to complain that a professional curriculum allows them too little time to convey an adequate understanding...