Word: risks
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...Certificates were authorized by the General Court last year and are available locally from the Cambridge License Bureau in City Hall. Liquor stores still have the option of requesting proof of age but, as in the past, they risk a $500 fine and the possible loss of their license by serving minors...
Sounds familiar? Blonde, bullion, gilded body. Of course, the criminal Midas who sent the Triumph in for refinishing is Gert Frobe of Goldfinger. But Director Jean Becker, unwilling to risk all on one reckless stab at success by association, has also equipped Backfire with the Breathless team of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. This time sparks fly only sporadically between them, partly because Actress Seberg?whose beauty and talent are unevenly matched?misbehaves with the studied seductiveness of a schoolgirl trying out her first pair of heels...
...formally graded but "grading is friendly, to say the least," Monro said. It is usually fairly difficult to get on A, but it is at least as hard to get a D or E, he continued. He emphasized, however, that the University is quite willing to take the risk of a few unmotivated students...
Harvard has chosen to keep the deliberations of ad hoc committees secret and thus avoid the risk of public outrage that might attend the rejection of a tenure nomination, such as occurred at Yale this year in the Bernstein case. It is impossible to know for sure whether or not the committee act as a rubber stamp--whether the refusal of a nomination is a common occurrence, or whether the existence of the committees discourages thoughtless nominations...
...remotely possible that, despite popular opposition, the U.S. Army could do what the French attempted in Algeria. Perhaps one could scorch and terrify the entire population into subservience. But the psychological and physical cost would be immense under the best circumstances, and the policy would risk eliciting open confrontation with the North. In such an event the odds are that Russia could not stand by and watch the United States fight a massive war in Vietnam without intervening. It is true that the Russians and Chinese might well "lose" the ensuing conflict. Nevertheless this entire chain of prospects seems totally...