Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he never returned to prison after his release in 1923, four-time Loser Lemass was plainly a poor matrimonial risk. When he started courting pretty, vivacious Kathleen Hughes, he had the added disadvantage of having to placate her father, a Dublin carpenter and an Anglophile. He warned his daughter: "That boy is always on the run; he'll never be able to make a home for you." Kathleen decided to risk it anyway. They were married in 1924, have a son Noel, who is a Member of Parliament, and three daughters (the eldest, Maureen, is married to Charles...
...more immediate concern to the average man is the work at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., where cons in a guarded ward are exposing themselves to the risk of Asian influenza. Here the purpose is to test the effectiveness of new vaccines that have had to be developed because the Asian flu virus of 1957-61 has been displaced by a variant strain...
...their pains, federal prisoners get compensation ranging from a pack of cigarettes up to $25 in cash. If a volunteer's lot is particularly onerous or carries some risk of major discomfort, the Bureau of Prisons may give him "meritorious good time credits," which shave a few days off his sentence...
Brick Wall. The Murchisons had not imagined there was so much fight in old Allan Kirby. With most of his $200 million fortune tied up in big blocks of blue chips, including Manufacturers-Hanover, I.T. & T. and Woolworth, they figured that Kirby would hardly risk more to battle back. But Kirby had a one-word explanation for his persistence: "pride...
...Europe is that opportunities in Latin America look dark. Last year U.S. businessmen took $32 million more direct investment capital out of Latin America than they put in. Last week in Brazil, the U.S. -owned American & Foreign Power Co. found itself in the kind of mess that makes other risk cap ital feel like not taking such risks...