Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bodyguards to wealthy clients for $115 to $230 a day each. Even having a guard dog requires a major investment: a trained German shepherd sells for $5,740, and last year Italians bought $7 million worth of them. Though kidnaping insurance is banned by law, many industrialists carry "K" risk policies written in Britain and West Germany (premium: $40,000 a year for $1 million coverage...
...when Carter attempted to kill Clinch River in April of last year, the reasoning downplayed the economic and geological arguments against this particular plant. Instead, he worked from the broader, far more compelling and important opinions he voiced in the previous fall's campaign. The risk of further nuclear proliferation, the President said in withdrawing administration support from Clinch River, "would be vastly increased by the further spread of sensitive technologies which entail direct access to plutonium or other weapons-useable material...
...fear the United Front leadership felt that night was understandable. The leaders had no way of knowing whether they were marshaling 3000 committed anti-apartheid protesters, or just a large group of college kids out for a good time. And not knowing, they ran the risk of leading an impassioned group of, say, 13 students in an assault on U-Hall reminiscent of Custer's last stand, while everyone else held back and watched. But, though they did not know it, the leaders had received a mandate from the core of protesters who remained throughout the night, and those...
...look ridiculous--it looks formidable, in fact. The fear of ridicule may be a legitimate concern, but if a group's leadership too readily reflects it, that fear easily destroys a movement. This was the United Front's problem--although some members of the group were willing to risk leading the crowd in the sit-out, many were not. Yet it is absurd to expect a crowd to do what its leaders are clearly afraid...
Quest set out to be the only magazine that "dared" to be optimistic about the world; hardly a high-risk audacity, but it's doing well. Whereas Politicks ("At last there's a magazine for people who make waves") is already sinking without a trace. Perhaps Today's Jogger will prove healthier; but after exhausting such subjects as jogging and diet, jogging and sex, jogging and meditation, what will there be left to say in Vol. III, No. 6? McCall's has started Your Place for young adults who don't have children yet. Rolling...