Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...introduced a bill that would authorize the President to declare a national fuel emergency if U.S. demand exceeds supply by 5% or more. The bill calls for many feasible conservation measures. Domestic wells would be required to pump oil faster than their "maximum efficient rates," a move that would risk damaging the oilfields by reducing the underground pressure. Electric utilities that could do so would have to convert from burning oil to coal-at the cost of more pollution. Highway speed limits would be lowered to 50 m.p.h.; motorists would be required to get regular engine tune-ups and would...
...paper applauded the fact that some of the players risk court action for trying to smuggle in Western luxuries from their foreign travels, a privilege that Soviet athletes had long come to take for granted. "The national team returned home burdened not with a heap of victories," complained Komsomolskaya Pravda, "but with a heap of unprecedented customs violations...
...government says it demands that all federal contractors open their doors to more women and minority group members or risk loss of federal funds. But while HEW has repeatedly questioned the apparatus by which universities, including Harvard, will implement their affirmative action programs, the department itself has yet to carry through on its ultimatum. Defense research is more important to the Nixon administration than its own morality or the morality of the institutions it employs...
...have supported Nixon faithfully for so many years and one which they have sought to avoid at all costs. But by the middle of last week it was finally clear to many Republicans that Nixon had become "an albatross around their necks," and that unless they wanted to risk "complete disaster" in the 1974 Congressional elections they had to find a way of easing him out of the Presidency...
...Cosell's antipathy to sportswriters, I think, is that he lacks confidence in his own writing ability. It's easier to talk and say nothing than to writing and say nothing. Any lack of confidence he has is justified: cliches are abundant in Cosell. People "grab a sandwich and risk ptomaine poisoning." A fighter "figured to have two chances: slim and none." So-and-so is "all man." A TV show's success "is now history." And, in a class by itself: "Reporters clung to [Ali] as flies are attracted to a wet jelly bean...