Word: risks
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Blue Cross, which pays hospital bills, and Blue Shield, its counterpart for covering doctors' bills, both employ the traditional insurance concept of protecting the individual by spreading the risk of financial loss among many people...
...director of the NAACP, and long been identified with the liberal wing of New York politics. In the waning days of McCarthyism, Mayor Wagner accused him of "leftist views," and refused to reappoint him to defend Delany at the time of his dismissal, the present appointment clearly involves a risk that one does not expect presidential aspirants to take...
Brucker conceded that "no one wants to risk hurting the common cause by prying too much or spilling secrets," but he did object to the fact that the Administration seems to regard any attempt to get information about its actions as "an irresponsible act that risks spilling the military beans, an all but traitorous tipping-off of the enemy to our defense secrets." Said Brucker: "That is managed news with a vengeance. It is more in the tradition of Dr. Goebbels than our own." In fact, it reminded him of a World War II parody of Kipling...
...money, they will share in profits; if not, they will absorb much of the loss. Douglas has already signed an agreement with the largest DC-9 subcontractor, de Havilland of Canada, under which de Havilland will supply $65 million worth of wing, tail and fuselage section at its own risk. Young Douglas expects the rest of the six major DC-g subcontractors to agree to the plan within a month...
...agents, cutouts, line crossers, drops and cover organizations. His assignment can generally be classified as either "clandestine" or "covert." A clandestine operation (the Bay of Pigs invasion, Russia's secret installation of missiles in Cuba) is one that is recognized as a hostile act carrying with it the risk of war. A covert operation, however, is one accepted as "a peacetime avenue of action which, when used, will not upset international apple carts." In Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 state visit to Britain aboard a Soviet heavy cruiser, British Frogman Lionel Crabb mysteriously died in Portsmouth harbor while trying...