Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sundlin should be ready," Lee said, "He could have wrestled today, but since we didn't need him, I didn't want to risk...
...films depicting the exploits of Raymond Chandler's fictional gumshoe, Philip Marlowe. Actors from Bogart to James Garner have played him, with Bogart creating the classic rendition. But audiences expecting something in the tradition of The Big Sleep are bound to be disappointed. Altman, the most original and risk-taking of current American directors, creates his own tradition...
...government now has military alliances with 43 countries on all continents to keep order and to oppose those who rebel against U.S. economic and political domination. To keep these treaties, this country must maintain a costly war machine around the world, and each alliance carries with it the risk of dragging the U.S. into war. Repeated Vietnams and heavy defense spending will remain vital, inflation-causing part of the U.S. political and economic scene until economic planning ends the peril of recession, and until U.S. industry is restructured so that it need not seek prosperity by dominating and exploiting Third...
...there are not more than one or two Republicans on that committee who are inclined to support an impeachment resolution." One or two are not enough. It is generally agreed that at least six of the 17 Republicans on the committee must endorse the resolution before the Democrats dare risk sending it to the floor. Otherwise, unless one or more charges are clear-cut and proved, the Democrats would leave themselves open to the accusation of partisanship. In that case, not enough Republicans would support impeachment in the final vote -though the Democrats could force it through by simple majority...
Investors are wary of sinking money into an industry whose most visible asset-access to foreign crude oil-is threatened with nationalization. They are reluctant to risk their savings in an industry that attracts heated criticism -and invites price rollbacks-when it rolls up an unusual profit. Moreover, the oil companies are falling deeper into debt. A top Manhattan banker reports that 37 of the largest U.S.-owned oil companies have been forced to finance an increasing portion of their capital expansions by going into long-term debt because of difficulty in raising funds through the preferred method of selling...