Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Acceptable Risk. Indeed, last week Soviet delegates still were attending SALT talks in Geneva. American businessmen were in Moscow putting finishing touches on an exhibition of oil-and gas-extraction equipment. Officials of the U.S. space program got their first on-site look at the Soviet mission-control space center, and plans proceeded for a joint space venture...
...much of the U.S. seems to take a more alarmist view of the current dangers to détente, this may well be caused by differing perspectives on what a practical détente really means. The Russians seem willing to accept and to risk American-Soviet conflict in specific and localized situations as part of the normal competition between the two powers. The U.S. seems more inclined to see linkages between situations, fearing that conflict in one area threatens the whole relationship...
...Egyptian armed forces performed a miracle, by any military standard. I would not be exaggerating if I say that military historians will long pause to examine and study the operation carried out on Oct. 6. The risk was enormous and the sacrifices were grave. But the results of the first six-hour battle of our war were magnificent. Our wounded nation has restored its honor and the political map of the Middle East has been changed...
...spring, when the Comptroller forced Smith to step down as chairman. Reason: the bank had lent more than the legally permissible 10% of its assets to companies controlled by a single individual: C. Arnholt Smith. Smith's enterprises turned out to be the bank's biggest credit risk; his companies' bad debts constituted an unspecified but large percentage of the $143 million in outright losses and possibly uncollectible loans that U.S. National had on its books...
...countrymen remains extraordinary. Unpopular actions are blamed on others, and he is excused knowledge of them. His supporters fervently believe that once he sits in the President's chair, things will right themselves. Still, by trying to crack down on violent leftists, Perón obviously runs the risk of becoming a target himself...