Word: riskier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TOBACCO, THE GREAT UNEQUALIZER? Lighting up may be riskier if you're an older woman. Women over 60 who smoke are more than twice as likely to get lung cancer as same-age males. Why? Women may be more vulnerable to tobacco's carcinogens, they may inhale more of these carcinogens with each puff, or they simply may not be screened for lung cancer as vigilantly...
...Foxes," they were called--to discourage distracting office romances. His longtime companion was Billie Cherry, a woman who worked for him. Cherry and her friend Terry Church followed Knox from Pittsburgh to Keystone. The bank moved aggressively into the national market for "subprime" home-equity loans, which are riskier than first mortgages but generate higher interest payments. Keystone was earning about 5% profit on its assets--more than double the industry average--by the time McConnell died...
...well-versed STP was waiting for. "Sour Girl" is another almost-ballad, revealing the band's ability to mix pop melodies with a dark and gloomy bass line. The band is still capable of experimentation, especially on the track "No Way Out," but one wishes that STP had been riskier with distortion and electrical manipulation on No. 4. Weiland clearly has the ability, as his solo project 12 Bar Blues revealed, yet he fails to share what he has learned with the rest of the band...
...Previous redeployments have prompted Palestinian militants to shoot at settlers and have spurred the settlers to expand their settlements. Barak knows he?ll have to dismantle some of the settlements as part of the final agreement, but believes a piecemeal Israeli withdrawal ahead of such an agreement is even riskier than confronting the settlers with a done deal. But his Palestinian counterparts lack the patience for such nuance. "After the last few years? experience, the Palestinians no longer trust goodwill and promises," says Beyer. "They trust only what they hold in their hands" -- land, and signed agreements to transfer more...
Banning the fastest growing religious group in modern Chinese history may be a risky move for Beijing, but letting it flourish may have been even riskier. That appears to be thinking behind a government decision Thursday to declare the 70-million strong Falun Gong religious cult illegal. The move came as protests continued in Beijing and other major cities against the arrest Wednesday of thousands of members and leaders of the group. "The government fears that Falun Gong, as a nationwide movement with more members than the Communist party, could become a lightning rod for the political frustrations...