Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking at the Harvard Square Forum on "Violence in the Streets", Howard explained, "When a society kicks a whole race of people, that race is going to kick back. Black people are willing to risk death to get the American dream off their backs...
...measured by conventional tests. The moves by speculators do not reflect a real threat to the dollar. What they reflect is only a continuing Treasury policy that sets a floor to the price of gold-that $35 an ounce is a tactical tribute to tradition-and so permits risk-free speculation against currencies...
...wants to take the goods with him, he may have to pay the full price, later haggle with customs agents for a receipt to send back to the store, which, he hopes, will then forward the amount of the discount. On the other hand, a shopkeeper can risk giving the discount to a buyer right away, in hopes that he will send back the customs slip when he leaves...
...college-age Volunteers, the physical hardships turn out not to be a problem: if anything, the reverse, since such hardships provide a self-evident obstacle and one that is readily surmounted. The graver hazards are emotional and inter-personal. They may include the risk to one's psychic balance of living at once alone and in a crowd for two years; the risk to one's self-confidence in encountering one's first significant failure after years of success at home and in school; the risk to one's sense of values of coming to question, in a strange environment...
...Mooney, who raised a small amount of capital to build the "Mooney Mite," a durable, single-engine one-seater. Trouble was, Mooney proved to be a better aeronautical engineer than businessman. Learning that the aircraft maker was hopelessly in debt, Rachal decided to take "a calculated risk." In 1954, on the night before Mooney planned to file for involuntary bankruptcy, Rachal and a brother-in-law, Norman Hoffman, came forth with $225,000 to rescue the company...