Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amended City Charter makes it clear that the City manager and his staff is to handle municipal affairs and authorize civil servants to do specific jobs. The City councillors, by law, are forbidden to tamper with this process at the risk of a $500 fine or a six month prison sentence. Violators also are forbidden to serve the City in any future capacity, elective or otherwise...
...eleven points at Risko are assured that they have a good chance of avoiding stroke or heart attack. Those scoring more than 40 are warned: "Danger urgent. You must reduce your score." The task is more easily ordered than accomplished. Any player who really wants to can cut the risk factors of overweight, smoking or lack of exercise. But other scores are immutable. A player whose close relatives have died of heart disease is awarded up to seven points, and one who is over 60 years old gets eight points simply for having lived that long...
...collapses of "unsoundly financed" firms are "absolutely in the sense of our policy." No one expects the Federal Reserve to go that far; Burns in 1970 proved entirely willing to expand the money supply quickly when a credit crunch threatened to cause many U.S. bankruptcies. There is still a risk, however, that the board will make credit scarce and expensive enough to discourage not only excessive but also necessary borrowing and thus invite a recession. Burns rates that risk low; "as of today, I consider the talk of recession premature," he said last week. Indeed, he warned of even tighter...
...prime undeveloped land adjoining it. A tiny zoning change will make the property-a potential community park-eligible for commercial development, and Watchung has the town's most influential councilman in its pocket. Corporate triumph seems inevitable-until Howard Butler discovers that his outcast condition enables him to risk the heroic...
...Whether Greeks voted yes to accept a so-called republic and permit parliamentary elections next year or no to protest abolition of the monarchy, the outcome was the same-continued iron-fisted rule by Papadopoulos. Greeks could not abstain from voting, since by law they must either vote or risk going to jail. The referendum, in short, was a charade...