Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Republican Party offers them permanent shelter. It is designed also to deny Democrats the sure votes they once could count on in Dixie. Wallace's re-emergence could once again cost Nixon the electoral votes of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. It could also force him to risk losing the support of those in the center of the political spectrum by more actively courting the hard-liners in the South. This could split the conservative vote in states like Georgia and Arkansas and give the Democrats there a victory by default...
This sum is to provide the House Committee with some risk capital so that it could experiment with new activities, "freeing it to some extent from the need of promoting activities, such as mixers, which are merely certain to make money...
...William Kemmerer quarantine manager of Houston's Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where the accident occurred, said yesterday afternoon that he thought the risk of contamination from the moon rocks was "very low." but that the quarantine procedures were "necessary and rational...
...heyday in Wall Street and Hollywood, Kennedy was an aggressive, though never reckless in-and-out operator. By about 1949, however, he had decided against further risk-taking. Jack was looking beyond his safe seat in Congress, and so was his father. Joe Kennedy told his advisers to keep his money away from "troubled places"-he had moved out of the politically troublesome liquor business in 1946-and he turned down deals that he formerly would have snapped...
When Joe Kennedy moved from accumulation to preservation of capital, the safest bet seemed to be Manhattan real estate. To his delight, his shrewd broker, John J. Reynolds, the real estate counselor of the archdiocese of New York, made him vastly richer at minimum risk. Gradually, over the past seven or eight years, Ken Industries and the Park Agency, Inc., have disposed of the family's holdings in Manhattan. The golden touch that Kennedy enjoyed in his dealings is illustrated by the largest single transaction in this slow, quiet process of liquidation. In 1943 Kennedy bought the property...