Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Banks sprained his ankle severely in last Saturday's game against highly-touted Boston College and Crimson coach Satch Sanders has decided not to risk further injury to his center...
...three doctors filed a report that concluded that 1) Nixon could not travel to Washington until at least Feb. 16, 2) he could not testify in a courtroom setting in California until Feb. 2, 3) he could not risk even the strain of giving a deposition in his home until Jan. 6. That posed a dilemma for Sirica, who is trying to wind up the trial by Christmas. Sirica could delay the trial's conclusion until after a deposition was taken. If this is done, the doctors recommended, questioning of the former President should be restricted...
...political style when he was elected last May. Now the French are wondering what he meant. Recently, the satirical weekly Canard Enchaine reported that the President's Citroen had collided with a milk truck at 5 a.m. in Paris. Last week it claimed that he is a security risk, too often out of touch with his Elysee Palace office and the red button that controls the force de frappe. ∎ Then for the first time, the nation's respected liberal daily Le Monde published some rumors, adding that the Elysee denied them all. Still, nobody denies that while...
When a woman has had one breast removed for cancer, her risk of developing a malignancy in her remaining breast is only about 1% in each of the next ten years. The likelihood that she will have cancer simultaneously in both breasts is even less. Last week Margaretta ("Happy") Rockefeller found that the law of averages had discriminated most cruelly against her: only five weeks after undergoing a radical mastectomy for cancer in the left breast, she had her right breast removed by less drastic surgery to eliminate a minuscule cancer that had been present but undetected at the time...
...Chile rose to $12.5 million in 1973 alone. International finance organizations also cut aid to Chile. The World Bank, headed by Robert McNamara, stopped all loans to Chile after 1971. It had given $270 million before 1971. The World Bank said that Chile was a "poor credit risk" and that it did not approve of Chile's expropriating foreign businesses without due compensation. The International Development Bank's funding of Chile showed a corresponding decline from $312 million before 1971 to $54,290 after. Without foreign credit to pay its debts and mortgages on past loans, Chile was unable...