Word: riskiest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...undercover operative's riskiest encounter with the militia was one of his first. When he asked to join, he was told his phone records had been checked (apparently by Belliveau, the AT&T worker) and the militia leaders had some concerns about the operative's phone traffic. The militia insisted on checking out his apartment. Fortunately, the feds had decorated it to fit the operative's cover story...
...skilled artisans of the colonial period are examples. Today people who start businesses are Talents. So are performers. The key to the Talent path is that it's unstructured. No formal credential, no passing through a rigidly defined series of stations of the cross, is required. Talent is the riskiest of the three paths but also the most rewarding. Most of the familiar, celebrated examples of success in America are Talents...
Gingrich also learned the value of sleeping with the enemy. The strategy worked best on what would prove to be the riskiest undertaking of all, the Republican plan to restrain the growth of Medicare. Gingrich had watched as Hillary Rodham Clinton's health-care plan died its miserable death. His own proposal, which depends on shifting millions of seniors into managed-care programs, bears enough resemblance to Clinton's that he knew he had to be very careful. And, indeed, even as the Republicans were working on their plan, the lobby working on behalf of for-profit hospitals was preparing...
...more than a little ironic that on the threshold of an election campaign, Clinton, who has never given so much as a single speech exclusively devoted to Bosnia, is undertaking his largest and riskiest foreign venture in this part of the world. But he feels bound by a promise, made during his first month in office, to back a peace agreement with U.S. soldiers. The subsequent years of seemingly incessant Balkan warfare made it unlikely Clinton would ever have to redeem that pledge, but remarkable diplomatic progress in recent months--much of it stemming from the efforts of Clinton...
...expenditure for Live would be one of the largest--and riskiest--in the history of the council...