Word: risked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Aloni's views on the Arab-Israeli conflict are equally vehement. "I think we're strong enough to risk some steps towards peace," she says. "Everything, including Jerusalem, should be negotiated. We didn't negotiate earlier, with Jordan, for example, because we thought we could postpone the decision. The government listened to the right wing too much too often...
Awash in surplus oil profits, Iran is swiftly becoming the world's most acquisitive power. No purchase seems too big nor risk too great for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi as he pursues his oft proclaimed goal of transforming his ancient kingdom into one of the globe's most important nations. Last week reports surfaced that the Shah once again was stalking where most bankers fear to tread. According to aviation-industry experts, Iran's banks are preparing to grant a loan, thought to be as much as $250 million, to ailing Pan American World Airways...
...understanding wife Hazel last week, Tate said, "I think it is just beautiful and the greatest compliment ever that a young woman, with all the things she has, will take the chance of coming to see an old man at the end of his career. And she knows the risk; her mother spent eight years in the mines...
...difficult string quartets written since the time of Bela Bartok. They are by Composer Elliott Carter, and the trio of works have a collective age of 44 years. Yet no group had ever played all or even two of them at one sitting; scheduling even one is a calculated risk. The recital was a sellout. So was the second, held two days later to meet the demand for tickets. It appears that the string-quartet audience in the U.S. is not only larger than ever before but a great deal more mature...
...risk Detroit is taking is that the public's car-buying fever will cool rapidly after March 1, when all the rebates will have ended. Moreover, says David Eisenberg, auto analyst at the Wall Street brokerage house of Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.: "If the programs are tremendously successful, it could well mean that Detroit is borrowing sales from future months." Eisenberg believes that if post-rebate results are disappointing, the automakers will probably have to cut prices permanently, even if that means they will have to swallow losses...