Word: risks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...size after the war, the Smoker was moved to Sanders and became something far too close to a Bacchanalia for anyone's comfort. Attempts were made, over the past few years, to initiate various measures to make the Smoker a pleasant outlet for mid-winter tensions without running the risk of loss of control of the situation. These attempts failed, and the Smoker has been abolished." The University had apparently failed to establish the desired kind of atmosphere at the Freshman Smoker, an atmosphere that one Administrator had described as "A Smoker to which any student would feel free...
...another still uncertain element in the offer. In the past, the Corporation has virtually never given any indication of its building plans until the last contract is signed and work is ready to get under way. In announcing its "offer" to the MTA the University was taking a calculated risk that it could sell the public on the virtues of taking over the land. Whether this was good strategy remains to be seen...
...prescription of blood transfusion is playing Russian roulette with bottles of blood instead of a revolver," wrote Dr. William H. Crosby Jr. of Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital. "While the odds are in the physician's favor that nothing will go wrong, the patient takes the risk." Doctors are familiar with such warnings; yet every week in the U.S. and Canada one or more patients die because what was meant to be a lifesaving transfusion turns out to be a death-dealing dose of incompatible blood (such as type A given to somebody with type...
...bottles to 1 per 10,000, with an average of 1 per 4,200. But for each obvious reaction there are at least four cases where incompatibility causes a hidden sensitization, preparing the ground for trouble with the next transfusion or the next pregnancy. So the overall risk is closer to 1 in 600, Dr. Moore concludes. And of patients who have such reactions, 15% to 50% will die, "depending upon the clinical acumen of the physician and the facilities available...
Last week some 4,000 investors a day, with a similar desire to see their money grow, were plunking $10 million daily into mutual funds, which offer an almost irresistible lure: the chance to make a profit with a minimum of risk and worry. The investor entrusts his money to an organization that invests it in dozens-sometimes hundreds-of U.S. companies, spreading his risk as wide as the economy. Even more important, he also buys savvy in the stock market, letting the fund managers do his buying and selling for him. Says a St. Louis businessman who gave...