Word: risks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many such organizations, most of which fought racial discrimination in the South and plugged for academic freedom. About two dozen of these appeared on Attorney-General Tom Clark's long list of groups attracting Communist sympathizers. By the Security Office's standards, these associations made Graham a dangerous risk in work involving classified information. The AEC disagreed; Graham was anti-communist and the commission knew it. In reversing the Security Office it stated that Graham's record was "in keeping with American traditions and principles," and that all security judgments must be made on the basis of "the man himself...
...points in this program are: 1) Federal and local subsidy for construction of 200,000 housing units per year for two years. 2) Federal allocation of funds for research into housing problems. 3) Gradual reduction of rent controls to reduce the risk in construction of rental housing. 4) Funds for large scale urban re-development. 5) Establishment of machinery to stimulate replacement building in periods of economic depression in order to stabilize the construction industry and thereby produce lower construction costs...
...sure how long he would keep all of his McDonnell stock. The paradoxical reason: the once risky McDonnell bet now looked too safe & sound. As head of Rockefeller Brothers, Inc., a unique research and investment house, Laurance and his brothers are only interested in enterprises that offer genuine risk. When the companies are well established, the brothers think most of their money should be taken out for other speculative ventures...
...Shots . . ." Out of this night he brought, incredibly, a diary. He wrote it, at unthinkable risk, on fine paper captured from the Russians and used in the camp as toilet tissue. He concealed the diary in a succession of common breadboards, split into thin halves, hollowed out inside, and glued together again. He began the diary in the expectation of some day showing it to his wife, but soon "it became a private manner of forgetting...
...religious tradition; at the same time, he edged his stories with the skepticism that was sweeping European Jewry. He became the spokesman and critic of an entire people. When Tevye mangled a Biblical quotation, bemoaned his everlasting poverty, or quarreled with God (whom Tevye loved so well he could risk familiarity), Jewish readers could recognize both the story and its bite...