Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lift the price of coal above its present record $15 a ton on long-term contracts and put more upward pressure on utility bills, steel prices and the cost of chemicals. Miller, in his first big bargaining test as U.M.W. president, has no margin for moderation. He runs the risk that his fractious rank and file members will thumb down any agreement he signs...
...have not yet been able to comply fully with HEW's request. But the half dozen or so that are nearing this goal consider their efforts well worth the trouble. Not only are they overcoming the problems of periodic blood shortages but they have significantly reduced the hepatitis risk to their patients...
Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital and other institutions have also found another source: patients. An individual who knows that he will be having surgery in a few weeks is asked to donate his own blood, which can then be transfused back into him, if necessary, without any risk of a mismatch...
...seen. Gay himself thinks his job will have little impact on the numbers of blacks admitted to the graduate school. He believes effective recruiting will have to come from individual departments. But, Gay claims, "Some departments have the attitude that every black admitted is a gamble, a risk you have to take by the hand and lead through...
...Johns-how to spread a skin of oil and wax over the surface of a canvas with such subtlety that, though monochrome, it is full of half-suppressed or latent incidents. The paintings do become objects of contemplation, like landscapes; but their austerity is so low-keyed as to risk blandness...