Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning, I wonder what will happen after Kádár. The problem is that you cannot make him into an institution." Perhaps the only thing that Hungarians can count on is that Communism will continue to rule their lives, and that whoever rules the party dares not risk offending Moscow. The Soviets keep 90,000 troops encamped on Magyar soil...
Rudman Ham, an official from the affiliate Children's Hospital, said the new law removes the risk that the state might permanently halt Children's Hospital's plans for building a cystic fibrosis research facility. He added the bill also eliminates the possibility the project will lose funds as a result of the time delay--up to three years--required to obtain a Certificate of Need...
Industry, as well as the victims, would benefit from the bill, Soble explained. The ABC would charge a slight pollution tax to cover its administrative expenses. Because the pollution tax would be graduated by the level of risk the manufacturer posed to human health, each manufacturer would know precisely how dangerous its product was. The proposed legislation would also set up an Office of Ombudsman, which would provide industry with the latest data and research on safer and less costly anti-pollution technologies...
...Industry would know that they would be held strictly liable for whatever injury did occur," Soble said. "Practically, manufacturers, in consultation with the insurance companies, would figure out ways of assessing the potential level of risk and reducing that risk to an affordable level. The manufacturer himself would be the hardest regulator around. There would be self-regulation...
...other surging currencies. In fact, he also urges the U.S. to float Treasury bonds abroad, selling them to banks, mutual funds and other investors in exchange for strong foreign money. The Treasury would guarantee to repay these loans in the same foreign currencies, so that the creditors would risk no loss even if the dollar fell still further...