Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard have increased by 2200. Meanwhile, "the rating system really hasn't done the job it was supposed to. It was intended to cut down on the number of multiple applications by giving a fellow some idea of his chances for getting in. But because there's always some risk in applications, I don't really think there is a solution to the multiple applications business...
...surprised family and so frightened the father that he died of a heart attack. Last week the police said they were still searching. But the word around the favelas was that the cops had found Horseface all right, had killed him and hidden the body rather than risk judgment in Brazil's notoriously lenient courts...
Sindona, a soft-spoken executive who relaxes by reading Tolstoy and collects Renaissance art, runs such distant acquisitions through aides who have sweeping authority. He insists that his companies increase overseas activities to spread their own risk, points proudly to the fact that by so doing, Libby last year raised sales 5% to $289 million and tripled earnings...
...exercising forceful leadership, Pearson might have run the political risk of ramming his flag through with the help of the three small parties that generally support his minority government. Instead the debate raged on until Parliament was in chaos. Over a total 22 days of nonstop jabber, no fewer than 175 speeches were made, 117 of them by filibustering Conservatives. It got so bad that New Democrat Stanley Knowles rose in disgust. "We are making Parliament a side show," he said. And on that Mike Pearson finally had to agree...
Considering the danger of a turn for the worse in East-West relations, such long-term credits are a definite gamble. Yet Western businessmen are eager to take the risk to get a firm toe hold in the potentially enormous market in Russia and its European satellites. So far, one of the main attractions has been Nikita Khrushchev's seven-year program to spend $42 billion developing Russia's lagging chemical industry. Even the West German government is under considerable pressure from businessmen to yield to such commercial temptations. Says Berthold Beitz, Krupp's general manager...