Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Known Person." Guttmacher ticked off a list of Ruby's deviations: he is a "suicide risk," has a "voracious need" to be loved, especially by "persons in positions of power," has a deep "consciousness of sexual doubt," has "a narcissistic concern over his weight and his baldness...
Such a compromise course might possibly stave off disaster while minimizing, for the Johnson Administration, the risk of a major war in an election year. But it all had a familiar ring, since McNamara had expressed many of the same hopes about the short-lived junta that preceded Khanh...
...Proof. The only serious side effect that responsible medical men have charged against the pills is that they may increase the risk of thrombophlebitis-formation of blood clots, usually in leg veins. A number of women have died of clotting disorders while taking Enovid, but a special committee of experts named by the FDA could find no proof that Enovid was to blame. Many women who have never taken the pills, and who rarely take any drugs, suffer from thrombophlebitis. But nobody knows how the number of such cases compares with that among women taking Enovid. The committee of experts...
...longer simply an indication of specific achievement. They have become disproportionately important to students, chiefly because so many graduate schools are guided by them. More than half of Harvard's graduates now go on to further study. Students interested in courses outside their field take them at the risk of lowering their departmental Honors status. Unless they wish to graduate with a Cum Laude in General Studies, good work in outside courses remains unconsidered. Only departmental grades count toward Cum Laude and Magna Cum Laude degrees...
Booming land prices seriously affect the big housing developers, who must construct more expensive homes to recover the cost of the plot and thus risk losing their mass market. Dallas' Centex Construction Co., the fourth biggest U.S. home builder, had to go 20 miles outside Chicago to find land cheap enough for its middle-income Elk Grove Village. The asking price for virgin land 30 miles from San Diego-with no houses around, no sewage or water service-is $3,500 an acre. Sometimes the price can kill a project. After land along a Houston freeway doubled in price...