Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fears that some favorite socialist schemes will be vetoed by the Liberals. But last week's deal binds the two parties only until the end of the current parliamentary session in November. By then, Britain's economy is expected to improve, and Callaghan might be willing to risk a national election. Today, all opinion polls agree the Tories would win an election-although once in power, they would find it nearly impossible to deal with the unions and Labor's left wing, which even Callaghan has a hard time controlling...
...urban land, public auditors instead of boards of directors for corporations, and the gift of food, housing, health care, education and money to the poor. He has a pessimistic view of human nature, but it principally applies to the rich and powerful. "People of privilege," he writes, "will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." Even F.D.R., the Squire of Hyde Park, would recognize this statement as an exaggeration. In addition, The Age of Uncertainty chronicles the revolutionary struggles of impoverished millions who risked destruction. The fact is that most of those...
...very dangerous to restrain First Amendment liberties. The chance of occasional excesses is not too heavy a price to pay for assurance of liberty." Said New York Daily News Editor Michael O'Neill: "We must weigh one value, of a fully informed public, against another, the risk of some madman imitating what he has seen or read. The first enormously outweighs the second...
...Risk-averse freshmen have always attempted to outguess their classmates by strategically listing those River Houses of average or low popularity as their first choice Houses in an attempt to avoid rooming at the Quad. This year is no different...
...risk of cancer due to saccharin intake is minuscule compared with the risks of increased sugar consumption," he added...