Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion in revenue, though almost all of that would go into the increased investment allowance. One argument for such surcharges is that unlike a gasoline tax, they would not raise retail prices. Even so, asking for any kind of tax boost so close to an election is a calculated risk...
...risk is real. Sliding consumer confidence about the future is eroding already weak retail sales. Consumer Pollster Albert Sindlinger of Swarthmore, Pa., reports that during the three weeks of minisummits the public followed the news, was well aware of the Administration's position and was not heartened. Some Wall Streeters suspect that the stock mar ket's nosedive last week (see box page 40) was accelerated by some of the candid assessments of the depth of economic trouble that came out of the summit...
...deplored "the pulverizing impact of energy price increases on every aspect of the world economy." He warned: "Sovereign nations cannot allow their policies to be dictated or their fate decided by artificial rigging and distortion of world commodity markets ... Exorbitant prices can only distort the world economy, run the risk of worldwide depression, and threaten the breakdown of world order and safety...
...analyzed the records of 25,000 patients admitted to 24 hospitals in 1972. The surprise finding, reported in the British medical journal the Lancet, is that women aged 50 or over who take certain types of medication to relieve mild cases of high blood pressure run a threefold increased risk of developing breast cancer...
...leading U.S. cancer epidemiologist, Manhattan's Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, believes that the action is not to cause the cancer-that usually takes many years-but to stimulate or accelerate its development. A somber Lancet editorial suggests that doctors will now have to weigh the apparently greater risk of breast cancer against the advantages of lowering blood pressure for mature women...