Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Equal pay for equal risk...
...administration can pursue a more constructive alternative to bombing the north by trying to reconstruct the south. This will still involve casualties but at less risk of world war and with a chance of somewhat diminishing the international odium we have brought upon ourselves. While our barbarity merely rouses fear and hatred that we can learn to live with, our psychological miscalculation seems stupid. Stupidity in a leader arouses distrust in followers all around the world...
...head of government, Constantine still reigned over Greece, and without his consent no governmental action could legally be taken. Yet the palace coup that had occurred without the palace's consent offered him a cruel choice: either to fight the coup openly and risk being toppled from his throne or go along reluctantly in the hope of being able to influence the military later. For the time being, he chose the latter course...
...Thick Skin. Konrad Adenauer was born in 1876, when Bismarck was governing a recently united German nation. At 29, he was refused a life insurance policy as a bad risk because of weak lungs; at 68, his Gestapo jailers feared that he might commit suicide because, they reasoned, at that age, he "had nothing more to expect from life." He grew up in the Rhineland, with a Rhenish and Roman Catholic German's lifelong distaste for Berliners and Prussians. His weak lungs also kept him out of World War I; by 1917, he was Lord Mayor of Cologne...
...have also helped the trade balance by sales to U.S. clothing manufacturers. Lee's sugar refinery at Pusan, started in 1953, provided the nation with a psychological lift because it was built at a time when the war with North Korea had left few businessmen willing to risk their capital on long-term investments. The urea-fertilizer plants, which will help make South Korea self-sufficient in fertilizer, are Lee's biggest project yet. His favorite enterprise is the Joong-Ang Mass Communications Center, headquartered in a nine-story Seoul office building where Lee works surrounded by teak...