Word: risking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they have a hard time tracking their grant account, they run the risk of overspending them, and that's a problem," Peters said. "They either have to go back to the funding agency and ask for more, or the deptartment has to make up the difference, or ultimately FAS would have to make that up. This is a problem we had hoped ADAPT would cure...
...general's problem is that his coup, which was provoked by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to fire him, is unconstitutional, and restoring civilian government would put the generals at risk of prosecution. His failure to produce a credible civilian administration leaves Washington and its allies facing an uncomfortable choice: Does the West opt to isolate and pressurize an unpredictable military junta in a newly nuclear power that exists in a perpetual state of low-key hostilities with its nearest neighbor; or does it work with General Musharraf in the hope that he can be coaxed back onto...
...rather be locked out than risk having my door open to the world," said Corrigan's roommate, Eileen M. Walker...
...evidence shows cigarettes to be risky, while leaving the actual language of disease to various government agencies. "This move is smart for Philip Morris from a legal standpoint as well," says Cohen. "Plaintiffs against the cigarette makers have been winning cases by divorcing themselves from the assumption of risk. The line is: If the cigarette companies won?t admit cigarettes are dangerous, how were we supposed to know they?d kill us?" Now that Philip Morris has admitted the danger, says Cohen, they may have released themselves from such liability. Other cigarette makers are looking to sidle...
BONING UP Don't think you're immune to osteoporosis just because you're a guy. Two million American men have the bone-thinning ailment, and 3 million more may be at risk. Now here's some help: the first major study on men with osteoporosis shows that Fosamax--a nonhormonal drug that helps treat the disease in postmenopausal women--also works in men. The bone density of men who took it increased 7% regardless of their...