Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's sluggish economic activity from January to June this year has led critics to fear the recessive potential of a tax hike. But Gardiner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, has said recently that there was "no longer a significant risk" of recession to block a tax hike. Rather, he added, an income tax increase has become essential to hold down prices and interest rates...
...city slums-where three-fourths of U.S. Negroes now live-are a daily test of endurance. Robert Waite, a Sierra Leone native who heads Mayor John Lindsay's Harlem task force, likens the Manhattan ghetto to "an underdeveloped country." It lacks indigenously owned business, gets little risk capital, and keeps losing its talent to bigger industries elsewhere-just as in underdeveloped countries. "In underdeveloped areas," he adds, "colonial banks were the only source of credit, and rarely did an indigenous businessman receive a loan until independence permitted the establishment of local banks...
Even on the one characteristic that most people associate with Quakers-pacifism-there was no unanimous agreement. Time was when all Quakers had to be peace backers or risk ostracism by the movement. Today, pacifism is no must; at last week's conference, a handful of Quakers privately supported the U.S. presence in Viet...
Researchers studying the multifarious effects of LSD had new and disturbing reports last week. Not only does LSD expose unstable trippers to the risk of a psychotic break. Not only does it break down the chromosomes in some blood cells. The latest evidence is that it causes cell changes suspiciously like those seen in one form of leukemia. Given to a rat early in pregnancy, it usually results in stillborn or malformed young. Worse, LSD may have similar effects on the human fetus. And those chromosome breaks have been found in the babies of LSD users...
...Great Society." Riots let the complacent elements of our society know that there are still people who are discriminated against and who live under impossible conditions. Riots show that the legitimate channels of discussion are often either fictional or clogged; they prove that Negroes are still willing to risk their lives in order to be heard...