Word: risked
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Strong Prop. In Greenspan's view, there is only a small risk that budget cutting will bring on a deep recession, largely because business capital spending will keep a strong prop under the economy. Manufacturers expect to spend almost 20% more for new plant and equipment than last year. In fact, Greenspan thinks that a tight budget policy eventually could help to revive the economy. Business is being held down, he believes, partly by the effects of inflation fueled by the big budget deficits and easy-money policies of the past...
...most aviation experts predict that at least 500 SSTs will be in service by the end of the century. If they all fly, the researchers warn, the nitrogen oxides generated would have a thinning effect on the ozone shield. Without this critical protection, people would run a much higher risk of going blind and of contracting skin cancer...
Back in the good old days in Austin, Texas, say 1970, a guy could risk trouble for deriding country-and-western music, or merely hollering the words "rock 'n' roll." This was, after all, the ancestral home of Texas Swing, where the Light Crust Doughboys had helped elect a flour salesman, W. Lee O'Daniel, Governor in 1938. Even such talented native Texans as Singers Janis Joplin and Johnny Winter, blues rockers both, had been forced to head as far away from Austin as possible to make the big time...
Potential Risk. In every area, cigarette smokers averaged concentrations three to four times as high as those of nonsmokers, with gradations according to the number of packs smoked. The major factors pushing up the COHb levels in both nonsmokers and smokers were the type of work, where it was performed, and the CO in the ambient air. Even nonsmoking taxi drivers in New York City had levels as high as 5.8% after a bumper-to-bumper day; workers at Chicago's O'Hare field registered 2.5%, at New York's Kennedy Airport 2.1%. Other CO-laden occupations...
...Milwaukee investigators, the most "astounding observation" was that no fewer than 45% of all nonsmoking donors had COHb levels above 1.5%, and in Denver the proportion reached a still more astounding 76%. Moreover, they say, there is potential risk in giving a transfusion of smoker's blood with a high CO concentration to a heart patient whose blood oxygenating system is already impaired...