Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard will invest up to $13 million in small high-risk companies through five management firms located in Boston, New York and possibly on the West Coast, George Putnam '49, treasurer of Harvard College, said yesterday...
...recognize the complexities involved in changing the name, but we feel that a carefully-considered and sensitively-conceived program could alleviate the potential consequences, which include embarrassment to the Foundation, the task of replacing the donation, and the risk of alienating future donors...
...expert on budgets and unemployment patterns, Teeters is a liberal on most issues. Her vote on the Reserve Board could be critical in deciding whether to increase the risk of recession by letting borrowing costs continue to go up. Teeters is one of the few women economists who say that they did not encounter any discrimination in their rise to the top. "In fact," Teeters asserts, "while I was having three children, the Fed even created a part-time job so that I could continue working...
...church property was seized, monastic orders were prohibited, and each state was empowered to determine how many clergymen could serve in its territory. Though the antagonisms are less virulent today, any government official who enters a church to worship still does so at the risk of ruining his career. A cartoon in the Mexico City newspaper Excélsior last week captured the country's schizophrenia: a government bureaucrat frowns at news of the Pope's visit, then when alone, jumps for joy with his rosary beads in hand...
What keeps such cases droning on is that the lawyers on both sides, trained in caution to begin with, "run an enormous risk by not touching every base," says Yale Law School Professor Geoffrey Hazard. "Look at IBM. If the Government wins, it'll be like dismantling a political state." With the stakes high and their meters running, lawyers are in no rush to judgment, he explains. "Many antitrust counsel make a professional specialty out of procedural maneuver," states a draft of the final report of the National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures. "Many others...