Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavy public rhetoric carries considerable risk of mutual misundemanding. Both sides have already made significant miscalculations-astonishing, given all the available expertise. The Russians failed to understand the importance of Carter's human rights appeal as a means to rally domestic support. The Russians actually think that Carter is under strong popular pressure at home to conclude agreements with Moscow. In fact, Americans generally -and most members of Congress-like Carter's firmness and would endorse an even tougher stand. Moscow is believed to be gambling that a new President will shrink from confrontation if only the Russians...
Youthful criminals prey on the most defenseless victims. The very young, the old, the lame, sick and blind are slugged, slashed and shot. They have retreated with broken limbs and emotional scars behind triple-locked doors. Many never venture out at night; some do not even risk the streets during the day. In confinement, their anguish is not heard. Often poor and not well educated, they do not know where to turn or how to complain...
...carefully conceived--even if the workers opted for District 65, the University could refuse to bargain with the union, and engage in a few more years of expensive legal bickering. Like a good poker player with a big bankroll to fall back on, the University could afford to risk a few chips on the chance of winning an early victory at the polls...
...have fled by boat, and allows for the entry of 300 people a month for the next three months. After that the number will be reduced to 100. But to qualify for entry at all, refugees must have close relatives who are U.S. citizens or be in a "high risk" category of people who held ranking positions in the Saigon regime, or who collaborated closely with U.S. military or Government agencies in Viet...
...after independence, the French will continue to guard the republic's frontiers against aggression (the Somalian border is only ten miles from downtown Djibouti, Ethiopia a mere 50 miles away). But diplomats here speculate that France will withdraw entirely if a major struggle erupts over Djibouti, rather than risk involvement in a Red Sea war. Djibouti's domestic deterrent force-600 soldiers, 1,500 border guards and 1,000 gendarmes-is hardly able to handle an invasion. If one develops, Djiboutians might be best advised simply to chew a little kat and hope for the best...