Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mold America as we would like it to be, we must first recognize America as it is." Brooke's views of the U.S. largely echo Lyndon Johnson's. He lists the three great domestic problems as poverty, civil rights and the plight of the cities. At the risk of being accused of me-tooism, he urges Republicans to devise remedies that surpass the Great Society's in both volume and efficacy...
...most popular resolution stated "No person whether in college or out, should be forced to interrupt his normal life to risk death in the Vietnam War. We call on the faculty to withhold grades from the Brandeis administration until that administration pledges to withhold from the Selective Service system any information about the academic performance of any student...
...think it was in for much turbulence. Air France simply argued that the proper party to sue was the Nice chamber of commerce, which runs the airport. "We just land where we are told," said the airline. What's more, the builder had taken a deliberate risk: nestled the Blue Bird only 80 yards from the airport runway. And, finally, Air France invoked a 1952 international aviation treaty that declares: "There is no right to damages if the injury results only from the passage of the aerial vehicle through air space in conformity to the applicable traffic rules...
...bonds. Calling some important turns are the faceless but formidable institutions-mutual funds, pension and profit-sharing funds, insurance companies and banks -which account for about 31% of all trading on the major exchanges. Now they are socking more and more of their millions into the high-yield, no-risk bonds. In the past four months, Pittsburgh's Federated Growth Fund has reduced the proportion of stocks in its portfolio from 98% to 83%, putting the remainder into bonds. This week the Boston Fund will announce that it cut its common-stock investments from 63.7% to 58.2%. Other funds...
...stand offshore while loading and unloading by pipeline. The Suez Canal is too small for the supertankers, and the shallow North Sea is not safe for ships drawing more than 56 feet, which is to say those larger than 200,000 tons. Insurance companies are fretful about "concentration of risk...