Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...native Arkansan (Fort Smith), I knew Wilbur Mills's father as an astute customer [Jan. ii]. If heritage means anything, Congressman Mills will exercise good business judgment. Will cutting taxes stimulate the economy? Any new business demands risk before profit. And isn't all of life, economy included, a matter of trial and error? Wilbur Mills will minimize error. That is, if he takes after...
...awfully pleased at the piece you did on my column in the Boston Herald [Jan. 4]. At the risk of seeming captious, however, I must say that I think you did the Herald an injustice when you described it as dreary. Not that there isn't a dreary paper in this town, but it is the Christian Science Monitor, which is dull, dull, dull-and such a sacred cow, such a status symbol, that though people cannot stand it, they nevertheless call it a great newspaper. It's a terrible bore, really. The same cannot be said...
...political heir of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, declares that "our tax system exerts too heavy a drag on growth . . . siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power . . . reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment and risk taking...
...almost certain to exert indirect effects. Desire is likely to be reduced because the patient is depressed. This and other emotional disturbances can drastically reduce sexual competence even when there is no obvious physical impairment. And since intercourse causes a dramatic rise in blood pressure, it carries the risk of provoking hemorrhagic strokes in weakened arteries, especially if blood pressure is already high...
...fear thought," says Bertrand Russell, "as they fear nothing else on earth-more than ruin, more even than death." But in every age since the pyramid builders', there have been a few exceptional men who would willingly risk death for the enjoyment of thinking. Whether Socrates had as high an I.Q. as Shakespeare or Descartes, Schweitzer or Einstein, will never be known. What is certain is that all such men used their brains as energetically as they knew how. Today, man may have no greater brain capacity than the ancients, but he has revolutionary ideas about how to exploit...