Word: risking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China has been flooding pro-Beijing papers in Hong Kong with scare stories, as well as filling the skies over the Taiwan Strait with warplanes, in part to send a message to Taiwan's voters who will choose Lee's successor next year. The experts don't discount the risk that this psychological warfare could by accident erupt into the real thing, but figure Beijing has too much at stake right now, including an upcoming Clinton-Jiang meeting and a long-sought deal to get into the World Trade Organization. Moreover, an international outcry over use of force would spoil...
...effort to alert people to the risk of ignoring unexplained fatigue, the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine is launching an educational campaign this week that will highlight three of the more common medical causes: thyroid disorders, depression and sleep apnea (a condition often characterized by snoring). "Baby boomers especially want to blame everything on their environment--their jobs, their kids, the stress of living in the '90s," says Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, who has just been elected president of the organization. But, she adds, you have to be alert to other possibilities as well, particularly after...
...with the secondhand noise attack. We'll cook up some medical research that "proves" we're at risk. Then we'll find a cell-phoneless lobbyist, should one exist, generate some sympathetic press and maybe get a website ihatecellphones.com is still available). Next we launch a campaign for designated no-cell-phone areas in public places. That's right, put all the cell shouters at tables in the back of the restaurant, near the bathroom or kitchen, where they can sit alone and chatter, gesturing wildly, as if the party to whom they are speaking could see them. Later, after...
Basically, the big advantage to electing Springer is that if Jay Leno asks you who your Senator is, you might know. And I'd rather risk having an ineffective Senator than being embarrassed on national television...
...long-term effect on kids' use of illegal drugs. In interviews with those who completed DARE in 1988, 46% admitted to smoking marijuana and 24% to taking other drugs within the past year. Researchers say programs would be more effective if they focused on kids most at risk...