Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superintendent sounded the alarm and, as students came pouring out of the building, policemen put up signs warning students that the University had received a bomb threat and that "all persons entering and occupying these premises ... do so at their own risk...
...courtroom, Mrs. Gandhi defiantly told the presiding magistrate that she would not ask for bail and preferred to remain in jail. Government lawyers hedged when the magistrate asked them, again and again: "What do you want? What exactly is your prayer?" The government was afraid to take the risk of jailing her, and after 80 minutes of courtroom waffling, the judge released...
Since then, individual investors have been asking their brokers to cut them in on the game of arbitrage. Fat chance. Merger arbitrage is a gamble only for high rollers-people with the wealth and insouciance to risk millions on a single transaction. There are other types of arbitrage, but they are scarcely as exciting. The word arbitrage is old French, and in that language means "arbitration." In financial English, it has traditionally described trading on price variations on the same commodity in different markets -buying cotton in New York, say, and selling it in Hong Kong, where the price might...
...carefully selected patients, many leading ophthalmologists are now replacing clouded human lenses with such permanent plastic substitutes; the doctors say the operation carries no more risk than the conventional surgery used to remove cataracts. What is more, the operations seem to have been remarkably successful. Of the patients who received implants last year, 85% have essentially normal vision...
Such quarrels over names may seem frivolous to casual consumers-that is, nearly everyone. But they are no laughing matter for companies that must constantly battle to protect their valuable turf in trademarks or risk losing them without compensation. Xerox, for example, spends some $100,000 a year for ads explaining that its corporate name is not a synonym for making a photocopy but the registered trademark for a specific process involving only Xerox machines. In the U.S. alone, the Coca-Cola Co. retains three lawyers to stand guard over the trademark "Coke." Other companies like IBM, RCA and Gillette...