Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shelling underscored the greatest risk inherent in the South Vietnamese push into Quang Tri: the possibility that the Communists might outflank General Truong's forces and at long last mount their often predicted attack on Hue. So far there is no certainty that such an attack is coming. The city's defense is primarily in the hands of a single ARVN division, the 1st, which would be hard pressed if the enemy tried a flanking movement that culminated in a sudden jab at Hue. South Vietnamese commanders seemed confident that a Communist attack on Hue could be kept...
...unskeptical idealist, "hurt by animals he didn't know were in the jungle." Of course the foolhardy girl agent should not have been allowed to pursue her plan of seducing the pusher in order to get information. But if she had succeeded, her superiors, who greedily let her risk her life, would have actually looked like effective officers. "He wanted a division. I wanted a squad," is the way one of them explained their motives. Through the use of a series of "tapes" that make up the final report to the commissioner Mills is able to do the police...
Denenberg has ordered companies that write fire and homeowner's insurance to offer more and bigger deductibles in order to bring down rates. He has asked the state legislature for authority to make those companies organize assigned-risk "pools" similar to those used by auto insurers to cover any customers who cannot find a firm willing to insure them. Last week, while other state officials in the flood-torn Northeast were praising relief efforts, Denenberg excoriated federal officials for not having publicized federal flood insurance. "A lot of people would have been better off if they had tossed...
...Vice President, Kennedy would risk assassination just as clearly and as unavoidably as if he were running for President. Publicly Kennedy explains: "Family and personal considerations are the primary responsibilities I have at the present time. They are the first and overriding consideration." Kennedy will sit out most of the convention in Hyannisport. If he feels the need for a show of party unity after the ticket is picked, he will put in a quick appearance in Miami Beach...
...background?" Ailes and Wade quickly agreed that above all else, "you do not break it yourself. Have the campaign committee do it, or have a friendly newsman do it, or leak it to the press. But be sure your facts are correct." Ailes continued: "This is a high-risk thing, and I would bring it up only if it bears on your opponent's capacity to hold the office. If a candidate is running as a protector of the environment and has a part in a deal in which a company is dumping sludge in a river, that...