Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure enough, last week both soldiers and Tonton Macoute were indeed less visible in Port-au-Prince. Cars traveling through the city were not stopped and searched. What's more, Papa Doc had even expressed an interest in visiting Argentina next August-a rare risk for any dictator afraid of losing...
...rest goes to the owners of American business-millions of ordinary Americans, who last year collected $18.9 billion in dividends-or is plowed back by business for expansion, modernization, automation and research. Business must be profitable in order to attract investors to put up still more risk capital. Such high-profit industries as electronics and office equipment find it much easier to get capital than such low-profit industries as textiles and steel. Says Shell Oil President Richard McCurdy: "We have to earn profit to generate money. It is the first thing that investors look at." The result...
...white man's burden falls, while he lasts, to Eddie Albert as an expectant father who berates himself just before the bandit attack with: "What kind of man was I, to get my wife pregnant at a time like this?" As the wife, Betty Field runs the risk of menopausal pregnancy, while the other girls crank up enough trauma for several melodramas. Mission Leader Margaret Leighton is a sexually repressed religious nut with lesbian leanings toward Teacher Sue Lyon. Anne Bancroft (in a role vacated by Patricia Neal when she suffered a stroke) plays a tough mission doctor...
...seeking further disarmament agreements with the USSR. The war in Vietnam will probably preclude such agreements at the present, but a resolution of that conflict should set the stage for successful discussions. The limited Nike-X system will contribute substantially to our military position, so long as the risk of a new and more lethal US-Soviet arms race is recognized and avoided...
...when the ball struck Walsh, said the judge, he was sitting in a golf cart 20 ft. to Sellers' rear - a place of supposedly perfect safety. As a result, Walsh cannot be said to have "voluntarily assumed the risk" of being partly blinded. Ruled the judge: Duffer-Defendant Sellers must stand trial...