Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill, followed by Illinois' John Anderson and more than a dozen other Republicans. Knowing that enough G.O.P. votes had probably swung over in favor of open housing, Johnson canceled his announced civil rights address to Congress. Principal reason for the decision: he did not wish to risk antagonizing the Republican converts by seeming to claim partisan proprietorship of the bill...
...state of New York stepped in last week as the nation's first mandatory high-risk pool to provide insurance for ghetto businessmen and residents was signed into law by Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Starting Sept. 1, insurance companies in the state will contribute to a joint underwriting fund to share losses. A bill to establish federal riot reinsurance for slum areas, still pending in Congress, may lighten the insurance companies' burden even more...
...friend and as a follower, to be faithful to him as I knew him and understood his creed, I must take upon myself the unhappy responsibility or at least the risk, of marring the effusive and superficial, but very official, harmony which has wet-blanketed our country since that day in Memphis not yet a week...
...high rate of suicide among college students has long been recognized as one of the more ominous statistics of higher education. Last week Harvard Psychiatrist Mathew Ross reported that the college-age group runs a 50% higher suicidal risk than nonstudents in a similar age group, and he scolded the American College of Physicians at its meeting in Boston for not doing more to prevent such deaths. Individuals contemplating suicide normally signal their intention, he said, and doctors must be alert to the message. The most common clues...
...have $50 for a deposit. The baby dies on the way across town to an other hospital. A New York doorman suffers a heart attack while on duty; he is refused emergency treatment at a hospital across the street because it lacks cardiac emergency equipment, and he must risk death attempting to reach another hospital...