Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surely he must know that to serve an Administration that has systematically lied to the public is to run the risk of not being believed...
...that those of us who would like to help have been like swimmers searching for a way out of the water only to run into one slippery rock after another. [But] those who call for the President's resignation on the ground that he has lost their confidence risk poisoning the wells of politics for years to come. The men who wrote our Constitution were fully aware how waves of emotionalism, if given an easy electoral outlet, could reduce any political system to anarchy. To ask the President now to resign, and thus relieve the Congress of its clear...
...post-Watergate electorate. He is staid, cautious, has a reputation for scrupulous honesty, and is too old to be ambitious. Beame is the classic civil servant, the man who once taught accounting in one of New York's high schools. He is an official of overarching caution, awed by risk, frightened by intuition...
...case. There it was proved that the Chicanos of San Antonio, because they were poor, received a very inferior school system. For as long as I've been here, religion, color and poverty have been lines that you couldn't cross and discriminate against without a grave risk to the equal-protection clause...
...Howard W. Ory, a student in the School of Public Health, last Thursday released a two-year study that shows some of the first evidence linking estrogen-progesterone birth control pills to the risk of pre-cancerous changes in the cervix...