Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact the "salutary violence" argument is not widely popular in the civil rights camp, and few argue seriously that violence is a good thing. None of the organizations working in Mississippi approve of self-defense. King, Farmer, and Wilkins would agree--even at the risk of being branded "Uncle Toms,"--that civil war in Mississippi this summer could scare civil rights back five years...
...Power & Homes. The bank was set up in 1960 to step in where private banks and other international lending institutions feared to tread. Under its able and imaginative president, Felipe Herrera, 41, a Chilean economist, el BID has granted longterm, low-interest loans for hydroelectric power in such marginal-risk areas as Guatemala and Paraguay. About 35% of its loans are for agricultural projects, which often get a cool reception from international bankers. Last year the Mexican government received $30.5 million to reclaim and settle 130,000 desolate acres in the southeastern state of Tabasco, while Venezuela and the Dominican...
...Government has helped U.S. businessmen win more sales abroad by setting up exhibition centers for U.S. products, ordering its commercial attaches to help U.S. firms find customers, and offering export insurance that takes much of the risk out of doing business with foreign customers. The expansion of U.S. banks abroad has also aided American companies overseas. Widespread inflation-which raises the price of foreign goods and makes U.S. products relatively less expensive-is helping sell more U.S. goods abroad. Because of Europe's inflation and labor shortage, many U.S. companies with European subsidiaries are hiking their exports of goods...
...sprawling La Santé prison. They eye Gaspard with suspicion. He seems too soft, too ready to please. He is accused of attempting to kill the wife who supported him while he dallied with her teenage sister. Can this fancy boy be trusted? His cell mates decide to risk it, and cut Gaspard in on their plan to dig their way to freedom...
Adorable Julia is a smooth and zesty little romantic comedy built on what seem like blueprints for a flop. To make a film of Somerset Maugham's 1937 novel Theatre was to risk anachronism, and to make it in French ought to have guaranteed disaster. What could be done to enhance the hackneyed backstage tale of a London actress who gambles her good name and marriage in an affair with a Casanova not much older than her teen...