Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back into the mansion is only one of the thorny problems facing the Governor. His options are limited. He could storm the place and forcibly eject his hard-to-estrange wife, but at the risk of never winning another woman's vote in Maryland. As a friend of the Governor's observed: "If she goes, she'll have to go under her own steam." He could file for a Maryland divorce, but since it is contested, he could have as much as a three-year wait. If he sought a speedier divorce elsewhere, he would have...
GUNTHER: The indictment route may be the "cleaner" one, but emphasizing it runs the risk of just construing a major provision into insignificance. The impeachment process is there and is a very central part of the constitutional scheme. Even if the House debated for two years and it dies there, I wouldn't find that intolerable. That would have been part of the legitimate process of handling the matter...
...sent to Athens just prior to De Gaulle's May 1963 visit. The agent's mission: to shoot the general with a special camera that fired bullets. The gunman lost his fake identity papers during a lively evening at a local taverna and refused to take the risk without getaway documents. A new set arrived a day too late, and all he got was a photograph showing how close he had been to De Gaulle...
...then involved, but on Sept. 1 this year, the militant Gaddafi decreed that Libya would take over a 51% interest in all foreign-owned oil operations and pay the companies what they had actually invested, less depreciation. The companies were given until the end of September to agree, or risk 100% nationalization. Such big firms as Exxon and Mobil refused, and are seeking much larger compensation. Texaco and California Standard, which operate a joint venture called American Overseas Petroleum Ltd. (Amoseas), went further and stopped exporting crude from Libya for a time when port authorities insisted that invoices declare that...
...leaping save midway through the second half but finished out the game. He has not practiced all week and is experiencing considerable lower back pain, which has required a brace. "I'll try it tomorrow and see how it feels," Kidder said yesterday, but it seems doubtful he will risk a more serious injury by playing...