Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Editorialized Turin's La Stampa: "It is perhaps the most dangerous and dramatic crisis since the war." Added Milan's Corriere Delia Sera: "This crisis is different. We are running the risk of a total collapse of the economic system...
...week's end the British government announced that the Prices had ended their long fast after what appeared to be an eleventh-hour decision by Westminster to avert the risk of violent reprisals by the sisters' Irish Republican Army supporters. As soon as their health permits, the pair may be transferred from London's maximum-security Brixton Prison to jail in Northern Ireland...
Most people will seek any excuse to avoid seeing their dentists. An article in the A.M.A. Journal now offers a new one: dentists may be hepatitis carriers. This risk was revealed when four Baltimore physicians began investigating the cause of a small epidemic of the of ten severe liver ailment. None of the twelve victims had had blood transfusions, a common source of the infection. Nor were any of them drug users who might have contracted the disease from contaminated needles. But all had one thing in common - the same dentist, a 28-year-old man who had recently returned...
...summer began when Bok received a letter from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare which explained that Harvard's affirmative action program no longer met minimum federal standards. The letter, dated July 15, gave Harvard 30 days to formulate a new non-discriminatory hiring plan or run the risk of losing its federal funds...
...That's the risk anyone takes when you start out on any law suit: You could lose, you know. And this is not to say that I anticipate losing this case--I do not--but that's, you know, a risk that you take in representing any client...