Word: risking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Harvard made the decision to outsource security, it took a risk. An outside organization would handle hiring and firing guards, providing their pay and benefits schedules and generally remove responsibility for the quality of individual guards from Harvard's plate. In exchange, Harvard would face mostly unfamiliar guards who do not know campus or the students and employees who may change often. Harvard must acknowledge the risks in this experiment; as these early reports have shown, the gamble may not be going so well...
...cards in military intervention--and why must we wait until human suffering becomes so intolerable that we must risk disturbing the fragile web of international relations?" Ogata asked during her speech, titled "On the Humanitarian Frontline: New Challenges in Refugee Assistance...
...keep it from killing large numbers of people. "We are going to see a real shift from diagnosis and treatment to prediction and prevention," declares California surgeon Susan Love, author of Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book. Indeed, if all goes well with current clinical trials, women at high risk for breast cancer will soon be able to be screened with a device that removes a sample of breast cells through the nipple. If any cells show signs of the early mutations that lead to cancer, doctors can suggest the drug tamoxifen, which is believed to reduce the risk...
...Asia, with its huge population at risk, that will have the biggest impact on the global spread of AIDS. The magnitude of the pandemic could range from 100 million to 1 billion, depending largely on what happens in India and China. Four million people have already become HIV-positive in India, and infection is likely to reach several percent in a population of 1 billion. Half a million Chinese are now infected; the trajectory of China's epidemic, however, is less certain...
Another cause is foods like onions or garlic, in which case you're out of luck: essential oils from such foods get into the blood, then into the lungs, then out with each exhaled breath. Even in the 21st century, if you want the flavor, you risk disfavor...