Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article "Sweet Risk?" [March 13], I found Bernard Cohen's calculations impressive-but not the suggestion that we can equate the cancer risk from using saccharin with an average reduction in life expectancy of two days...
...Communists were smug about the defeat of the leftist coalition. Indeed, their party's strength has remained stable (at about 21 % of the popular vote) for the past 20 years. Many observers thought Marchais had deliberately set out to sabotage the left's alliance rather than risk being dominated by the Socialists in a leftist government. Still, Marchais was hardly prepared to explain what his behind-the-scenes strategy had been. His brash postelection comment was, simply, "We are more than ever convinced that a union of the left is necessary." The party daily, L 'Humanit...
Harry N. Abrams Inc., the New York art-book publisher, bought the English-language rights, insured the risk by bringing in Bantam, the paperback house, as a partner and placed 40,000 copies on the market last fall under the simple title Gnomes. The book has sold 250,000 copies at a prepublication price of $14.95, and Abrams expects it to sell another 150,000 copies at the full price of $17.50. Abrams struck a crock of gold. Gnomes, says President Andrew Stewart, "will have a significant impact on our profits in 1978. We'd have a good year...
...Marchais and Mitterrand doggedly returned to the campaign trail in the week between the two rounds. Almost desperately, they escalated their campaign rhetoric in an effort to overcome the general sense of anticlimax that had settled over the country. "If the right wins." cried Mitterrand, "there is a great risk of creating in France a climate of the kind that precedes the rise of fascism." For his part, Marchais proclaimed that a victory for the government forces would mean that "tomorrow there will be even more daily difficulties and privation, layoffs and unemployment, authoritarianism and degradation in the quality...
...customers or workers, he argues, then its economy will become a service economy-"We will just shine each other's shoes"-and its standards of living will decline. Worse, its freedoms will suffer. Says Murphy: "There's a desire today for more security and for a risk-free society. But that becomes a choiceless society, not a free society...