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With those words in his televised address to the nation last week, Richard Nixon declared the greatest bet of his lifetime of high-risk politics, making a desperate and dangerous wager on his place in history. The stakes were nothing less than his survival in office and his ultimate image as a man and as a President. In still another effort "to put Watergate behind us," to show once and for all "that the President has nothing to hide in this matter," he announced that he was making public 1,254 pages of transcribed tape recordings of his personal conversations...
Kleppe blasted back that the Congressmen were indulging in "McCarthy-ism," and he can indeed point to some real accomplishments by the agency. Under his tenure, the SBA has encouraged local lenders to make high-risk loans backed by a 90% federal guarantee; four times as many such loans were made during the last fiscal year as in 1972. Most have been worthy and highly visible loans to grateful small businessmen who constitute no minor political constituency. Mindful of such factors, the House subcommittee last week decided after all to recommend that the agency's funding authority be expanded...
...into Mrs. Stanek's bloodstream-to act as a muscle relaxant and suppress uterine contractions-and they left a bottle of vodka on her bedside table with instructions to drink three ounces a day. When Mrs. Stanek, who was later moved to Colorado General Hospital because of its high-risk nursery facilities, went into labor, she was only seven weeks ahead of her due date...
...years ago I could just pick up the phone and call someone," Alevizos said. "Now, there are just too many." He said one reason for the upward trend in "high-risk borrowers" has been the expanded enrollment in the College...
Segal said that although on the national level the suicides predominate in April, the winter months are the high-risk season at Harvard...