Word: risks
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Despite all the polls that show Kennedy the overwhelming favorite for the Democratic nomination, the question of family opposition had long been considered a major obstacle to his candidacy. It was said that Rose, fearing for his safety, would resist letting her only surviving son run the risk of assassination. Another report was that Joan, who has been living in Boston apart from her husband and has undergone treatment for alcoholism, might strenuously object to any new public attention being forced on their relationship. Kennedy, however, attended his wife's 43rd birthday party in Hyannis Port on Labor...
While Dade County has one of the strictest building codes in the nation, requiring that buildings be capable of withstanding 120-m.p.h. winds, it offers no safeguards against storm "surges," the walls of water a hurricane pushes in front of it. And building codes elsewhere are less strict. The risk to life and property, say officials, is still considerable despite giant leaps in the art of weather forecasting. Such is the wildly unpredictable nature of hurricanes that the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables gives itself a 100-mile margin of error on a 24-hour forecast...
...risk-taker," she said...
...close to defaulting on its loans, no small problem--the tenth largest corporate mogul in America is over half a billion dollars in debt. And its repeated boostings of its loss estimates have not reassured the lending institutions, which seem to have written Chrysler off as a bad risk: the Federal Reserve concluded last week that the commercial banks have only lent Chrysler 50 per cent of the credit they can legally extend...
...more one of form than of content. If the government guaranteed a loan of $750 million to Chrysler, and the company went bankrupt, the government--through the tax-payers--would foot the bill. If the government advanced Chrysler the money through the tax credit instead, it would take the risk of never getting its money back. But the choice between the two is like a choice between apples and oranges--pay now, pay later, it's all a matter of taste...