Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...initial choice of oxygen was not made lightly. NASA scientists were aware that a two-gas system, one that would supply an earthlike atmosphere of roughly 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen, would substantially reduce-but not eliminate entirely-the risk of catastrophic fires. It would also do away with some of the known, adverse physiological effects of exposure to pure oxygen: eye irritation, hearing loss, clogged chest, and possibly other painful symptoms not yet known to doctors...
...Cape Kennedy, no one put the meaning of their deaths into clearer perspective than the Rev. Conrad Winborn, pastor of Ed White's home church in Seabrook, Texas. "Let us not expect to sing the victor's song," said he, "unless we are willing to risk the harsh notes of tragic loss and personal sacrifice...
...providing 38 permanent economic advisers to the governments of Pakistan, Argentina, Colombia, Liberia, Malaysia, and Greece. And it is reaching the limits of its capacity. "The DAS can undertake additional field projects in the near future only at the risk of reducing the quality of advisers overstraining its management capacity, and minimizing opportunities to absorb and disseminate the experience gained in the field," Gustav F. Papenak, Director of the DAS, explains...
...past decade, 28 Russian officials have either been expelled or arrested for espionage-but noted simply that ten to 15 Soviet consular of- ficials, added to the 452 who already enjoy diplomatic immunity in the Washington embassy and the U.N. mission, would not "add significantly to the risk." Spying, of course, has never been claimed as a Russian monopoly, and Morse asked if the CIA might not enjoy snooping from the proposed U.S. consulate, tentatively slated for Leningrad. Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach replied somewhat uncomfortably that, indeed, "the treaty is reciprocal...
...sorts of complaints: Spyglass was "too long" (at 6,972 yds.); its greens were "too slick"; its fairways were "too heavy." For Jack, it was too frustrating. He might be able to reach Spyglass's par-five greens in two booming shots, but that involved a certain risk: all but one of the greens was protected by a tiny pond. For a while, he played it safe, laying up close to the green and pitching on. Then he got bored. On the 535-yd. eleventh hole, Jack swung mightily for the pin. The ball missed the pond all right...