Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advisory committee on obstetrics and gynecology, which conducted the study, did not gloss over the harmful side effects of the Pill. The increased risk of blood-clotting disorders in the 8,500,000 U.S. women who use the Pill, it noted, was 4.4 times the normal risk for women who do not, as against the seven-to ninefold risk that has been suggested by British researchers. These disorders have proved fatal to three out of every 100,000 women using the Pill. The doctors warned, once more, that the Pill should be taken only under a doctor's supervision...
...Four Risk. A single defective Tay-Sachs gene cannot afflict its carrier with the disease. The paired, normal gene orders the production of enough Hex-A to allow the necessary brain-cell metabolism. But if both parents carry a Tay-Sachs gene, there is a one-in-four risk that the baby will receive two abnormal genes-one from each parent-and succumb to the disease. If he receives only one, his body will produce less Hex-A than it should, but he will be able to lead a normal life. Like his parents, of course, he will...
...will enable doctors to detect both the carriers and victims of Tay-Sachs disease. If blood tests reveal that both a man and his wife have less than normal amounts of Hex-A and are thus carriers of Tay-Sachs genes, they can be warned of their 25% risk of producing a Tay-Sachs child and perhaps be discouraged from having children of their own. By inserting a needle through a woman's abdomen when she is 16 weeks pregnant and extracting fluid from the amniotic sac, doctors can determine if the unborn child will have Tay-Sachs disease...
...asked that corporate income tax rates be reduced by 2 percentage points rather than increased or held at the current 52.8%. Nor would Kennedy move nearly so far as the House did in closing some controversial loopholes. In offering such a vulnerable package, President Nixon took a calculated risk. Though most of the changes would favor businessmen, who are certainly a powerful part of Nixon's political constituency, Administration strategists obviously figured that enough individual cuts remained so that the proposals would withstand political attack...
Instead of denouncing Kapwepwe for worsening the situation with his demagogic statements, however, Kaunda next day blandly urged him, in the interests of national unity, to stay on as Vice President of the country-though not of the party. Kapwepwe could scarcely refuse and risk being cast as an unpatriotic villain. At a press conference in the Vice President's villa, he withdrew his resignation in what he described as a "spirit of selflessness...