Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberal" overdraft policy to attract customers and that it applied to all depositors. Moreover, he contended, such a policy was "not an unusual practice" in a small rural community like Calhoun, where the bankers knew most of their customers and could judge whether this "extension of credit" involved any risk...
...injury is such a threat, some would ask, why play? Why risk serious injury? Why sit on the bench as Tim did for years for but a few precious minutes on the field? Why suffer, as many do, through years of practice, without playing even the few minutes that...
...bought control of the bank and he became its president. At the age of 32 he was finally off and running. As one longtime Calhoun resident puts it, "He was the best damn energizer of people ever to shake your hand." To bolster the local economy, Lance gave high-risk loans to people willing to start small businesses making tufted carpets. Today the carpet factories are the area's leading employers. To upgrade the local cattle, Lance had his bank buy purebred bulls, then leased them to farmers. His jaunty claim: "We have the only full-service, bull-service...
...powers-a development that also worries many Germans in view of their country's Nazi past. But if the mood of the country in the wake of the Schleyer kidnaping is any guide, most Germans today feel that the dangers of increased terrorism are far greater than the risk of democratically elected governments in Bonn misusing increased powers...
Miniracing with minimal risk...