Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bailey (TIME cover, March 25, 1957); now, says McEachen, the reaming-out (see diagram), which he does in the di rection opposite to that of the blood flow to reduce the risk of clotting, may have to be combined with the graft of a patch into the side of the diseased artery to restore its full bore. Under any circumstances, he said, the heart-lung machine is needed during the operation, and the surgeon has to use "microsurgical instruments, magnifying lenses, tiny sutures and great care." Of six Santa Monica patients followed for up to three years, five have derived...
...Febrauary 15 deadline for acceptance of the new National Collegiate Athletic Association rule concerning minimum scholastic standards has passed by without compliance from the Ivy schools. There can be little doubt that the Ivy League Policy Committee was justified in refusing to file notice of compliance, even at the risk of forfeiting the right to compete in NCAA championship events...
...made by an inexperienced Mayor Hayes. With his colleagues, Alfred E. Vellucci and Thomas H.D. Mahoney, he injected into the meetings the most intimate details of political maneuvering that preceded the mayor's election and the suspension of Curry. The threat was implicit: the meetings proceeded only at great risk to the political reputations of the five anti-Curry councillors. But this strategy alone failed to work, and a variety of other specters were raised before the Council...
...hitherto undreamed of scale; today engineers and scientists constitute a third of Lockheed's work force against only 5% during World War II. Bidding for big contracts became so costly that companies began to specialize instead of lunging after every bit of new business. Often aerospace firms must risk millions of their own dollars on up to eight years of research just to stay in the race to build fewer, but costlier weapons. "We've become more sophisticated, more efficient and more competitive," says Courtlandt Gross. "We've had to -to survive. Our competitors are very alert...
...risk of being called a defeatist," said Alcoa President John D. Harper, "I question whether this situation is likely to reverse itself in the foreseeable future. In fact, Government influence is likely to accelerate...