Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politically attractive quality, the President proclaimed himself the bearer of "bad news," declared flatly that "the State of the Union is not good," and announced that he did not expect "much if any applause."* Then he unfurled an economic and energy program of considerable scope, great complexity and huge risk...
...risk remains that Ford's proposals would cause enough new price rises to wipe out all the benefits of his proposed tax cuts, leaving consumers with no more buying power than before, or even less. To be sure, the pace of price increases finally seems...
...industrial nations should also be in operation. All 24 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are to participate in the plan. Each time a member nation is granted a loan, all the other members would assume a set percentage of the risk. The U.S. would be the leading guarantor with about a 25% share of the net and would have the biggest say in which countries get loans and under what terms...
...shouldn't support a repressive, corrupt, power-thirsty dictatorship like Iran's, I'll just say this: it seems to me that Harvard would do better to address itself to events right here in Cambridge, rather than to pour money, teaching time, and professor's lives into a high-risk investment like the Reza Shah Kabir University. Carol Petsonk
...keep its economy healthy, Japan must receive one fully loaded supertanker every hour of every day. It must also get oil from the Middle East via the shortest route and then provide vast storage facilities for the vital fuel-all without undue environmental risk. Until recently, the Japanese were confident that they could transport and store their oil safely and efficiently. Now two serious oil spills have caused shokku (shock) and raised grave doubts on both counts...