Word: riskiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...director took some unprecedented and risky steps. He brought talented Jewish scientists into the institute. He began building a corps of young scientists and selecting projects based on their scientific value rather than the political standing of scientists. He fought for access to computers. Most important, and politically the riskiest, he introduced a potent measure of democracy into the Soviet program. "Before Sagdeyev," says Louis Friedman, executive director of the U.S. Planetary Society, "the Soviet space program was closed. Now they talk about their plans. They even argue in public. He has materially changed the way they do major projects...
...difficulties of remaining value free show up clearly in an 18-minute anti-AIDS videotape prepared for the New York City school system and purchased by groups in 35 states. The narrator is the young movie actress Rae Dawn Chong. She discusses the two riskiest behaviors involved in AIDS, unambiguously advising viewers to avoid intravenous drug use but shying away from a similar warning on anal sex. Instead, she suggests use of condoms for vaginal and anal intercourse and adds offhandedly, "If you decide not to have sex, that...
Seymour started by killing his undergraduate business studies. "That was the riskiest step," concedes Provost Daniel DeNicola, "since one-third of the students were majoring in business." Communications studies suffered the same fate. Concurrently, Rollins revived its classics programs--Latin, Greek, languages, literature--and built a well-stocked new library. Results have been fast and favorable. Applications, despite an upcoming tuition of $8,591, have reached a 5-to-1 ratio for every freshman spot, while enrollment has been held to 1,370. And Rollins' still well-tanned but much more serious graduates have come into demand: last year every...
...well." A day later Premier Zhao Ziyang announced in a speech that the rigid wage system for government workers would be loosened to reflect individual merit. Combined with the government's plans for imminent price decontrol through the removal of state subsidies, these policies represented the most sweeping--and riskiest--steps yet in the piecemeal revolution Deng is pursuing...
...most fundamental of the newly announced economic changes, and the riskiest politically, is price reform. Until last week, consumer prices on such basic items as rice, vegetables and housing were kept artificially low through government subsidies. Now the cost of many items will be allowed to respond to market forces. The government is hoping that a rise in demand will prompt an increase in supply, so that prices that rise sharply at first will eventually be brought down again. Nonetheless, many Chinese fear that their bureaucrats, however liberal-minded, lack the experience to handle the subtleties of the free-market...