Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could not allow amnesty for the demonstrators because that would, as he said, "alter the foundations of every university." The demonstrators couldn't give in: they had not accomplished their goal. The administration couldn't give in, because then the demonstrators would not have to. Yet there was the risk that in reversing a temporary status quo to enforce the more permanent one, the administration would alienate its student support...
...died), it ordered the Coast Guard to intensify inspection of older ships plying the Great Lakes. Even a proposal to widen the breadth of trucks by six inches (to 102 inches) has not escaped the board's eye; unless highways are correspondingly widened, the accident risk would also increase...
...back to strafe ci vilian crowds gathered at railway crossings, in village marketplaces and in a churchyard after morning services. Nigeria's Egyptian pilots have so often bombed and strafed Biafran hospitals-whose roofs are often clearly marked with large red crosses-that Ibo mothers in some areas risk death for their seriously ill children rather than take them to such prime target areas...
...Paul Conrad, but the hapless victims of their own personalities. Such is his inescapable fondness for the political trade that Oliphant goes out of his way to avoid meeting politicians for fear of blunting his needle. While lampooning Barry Goldwater during the 1964 campaign, Oliphant did not risk a personal confrontation until the election was over. He then found Barry to be, as he feared, a "marvelous...
...will clearly be affected by any settlement that is ultimately reached; as the major part of the University community their participation in any new forms and structures that are created at Columbia when the present crisis is over is imperative. Moreover, many members of the faculty, at great personal risk, played a key role on Thursday night in preventing a police invasion of student held buildings. We have been presenting the political position outlined above to the Faculty Ad Hoc Committee on the assumption that they had some power to mediate. It has been the opinion of their negotiators that...