Word: high-risk
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Uncrowned but undisputed head of A.A. is Bill W., a tall Vermonter in his early 60s who drank himself out of a lucrative career as a high-risk stock operator. "In 1934," he recalls, "my doctor told my wife that if I didn't stop I'd have to be locked up because I'd either go mad or die." Bill W. didn't stop until he drank himself into a hospital, and realized that he must quit or die. He had to find another drunk in the same predicament, so that by helping each other...
...extent that control of the nation's natural resources was passing to U.S. investors. Canadians, investing heavily in such safe and sound ventures as mortgages, public utilities and business expansion, put up three-fourths of the capital for their postwar growth; but U.S. investors, plunging heavily into high-risk mineral explorations, managed to sew up 75% of Canada's oil and gas, half its mining. The fact that U.S. investment more than balanced Canada's trade deficit and raised the value of the Canadian dollar only sharpened Tory fears that "it can't go on like...
...seasons in the early '203 almost bankrupted Fulwood. But one good season gave him enough profit to take his whole family to Europe for the summer. This year the Fulwoods are assured of their biggest season ever, expect to make their crop. For the uncertainty of his high-risk business, Fulwood has a nerve sedative. Said he, "I just go fishing...