Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder declared flatly that the new government would not risk straining its ties with the U.S., and later flew to Washington to reaffirm Germany's cautious support for "policies of motion" to ease East-West tensions, to which De Gaulle and Adenauer are both opposed...
President Eisenhower, however, was willing to take the risk. In 1953 the CIA ordered designs for special camera equipment and sensing devices. By the time Kelly Johnson and the Skunk Works were brought into the project, the U.S. had almost everything it needed-except the airplane itself. Development of that plane was left up to Johnson. Recalls he: "Nobody ever tried to tell us what to do. We knew the problem. I knew the kind of wings I wanted...
...patriotic theme represented by "the Valley Forge," once advertised in color in an undertaker's trade journal with some Early American cupboards and a portrait of George Washington. For "the bon vivant who dreams of rubbing shoulders with the international smart set, the gay dog who would risk all on a turn of the card, there is the 'Monaco' with 'Sea Mist Polish Finish, interior richly lined in 600 Aqua Supreme Cheney velvet, magnificently quilted and shirred, with matching jumbo bolster and coverlet...
...surprise of some, three proud companies-General Dynamics, Douglas and McDonnell-bowed out of the competition. Main reason was money: though the Government is expected to put up $750 million, the winning bidder must risk $250 million of its own-vastly more than any company has ever gambled simply to develop a plane...
...Smallpox vaccination during the first three months of pregnancy has caused some malformations in babies, but the vaccine, all from the same batch, was unusually virulent. If a woman is vaccinated for the first time while she is pregnant, there is a risk that the baby will be born with a disfiguring or fatal case of cowpox. But if a pregnant woman is going to an area where smallpox always smolders, she should be vaccinated anyway, because the smallpox is far deadlier than any vaccine...