Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...existing converters on its cars, Vice President Ernest Starkman warned, "the prospect of an unreasonable risk of business catastrophe and massive difficulties with these vehicles must be faced." By "massive difficulties" he meant that the cars would be hard to start, would break down often and, most dangerous of all, perhaps stall while moving, because the antipollution device reduces engine efficiency...
...only requisites for joining the ranks of venture capitalists are a large pool of money and a penchant for gambling. The industry is an amorphous collection of risk takers: wealthy families (including the Rockefellers and Whitneys), large corporations (Emerson Electric, Dow Chemical, Exxon), groups of private investors and the 320 Small Business Investment Corporations. S.B.I.C.s, which will dispense a total of $100 million in new financing this year, are groups of private investors who supplement their own capital by issuing Government-guaranteed debentures. This week the Small Business Administration, which regulates S.B.I.C.s and sells their securities, will open bids...
This relative scarcity in turn demands greater ingenuity and risk by the pusher as well as the addict, and is reflected in higher prices. Most addicts ultimately are forced to turn to prostitution or crime (almost invariably against property, and only accidentally against person) to raise the money required for purchasing the drugs which will protect them from suffering the discomfort of a withdrawal syndrome. Thus the more completely enforced the prohibition, the scarcer the drug, and--in the case of a drug of addiction--the more crime will be associated with this drug, even though the capacity to induce...
...such autoimmune diseases as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus, in which the immune system goes haywire, recognizes certain of the body's own tissues as foreign, and destroys them. They can also treat these illnesses with drugs that suppress the immune system, relieving the symptoms at the risk of leaving the body open to infection. But they have yet to learn the exact causes, let alone the cures for these diseases, which affect more than 5.5 million Americans...
...Double Risk. Jointly, singly or in combinations of countries, the non-Communist world now seems to be moving, at least temporarily, toward floating currency values. Moneymen long believed that such a system would create enough confusion to dampen the desire for international investment. Because no one could be certain, for example, how many Swiss francs a dollar would be worth on any given day, the investor would not only have to take a risk on his project but also on the currency transactions necessary to finance it. Thus the usual practice for the past 25 years has been for governments...