Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest is the Northrop B-2, which is now expected to cost $530 million per plane, making it the most expensive weapons system in history. Eliminating the plane would create huge savings, but the effect would be felt across the U.S., as 126 contractors in 46 states have a stake in the project...
Mexican author Jorge G. Castaneda speaks of his country's political instability, its staggering debt and the U.S.'s stake in the outcome...
...stake is national prestige as well as control of Kashmir's northern reaches. Since gaining their independence from Britain in 1947, both countries have wanted the 85,805 sq. mi. of the state of Jammu and Kashmir as their own. In 1949 Pakistan and India signed the so-called Karachi Agreement, which drew a cease-fire line that ended at map coordinate NJ 9842, at the southern foot of the Saltoro Range. The negotiators did not extend the line because there had been no fighting in Kashmir's northernmost reaches, but merely mentioned that the line should continue "thence north...
...siding with corporate management to preserve the state's lucrative role as a corporate haven. Most major U.S. companies, including more than half of the 1,671 firms listed on the New York Stock Exchange, are incorporated in Delaware. Said a Wall Street analyst: "What was really at stake was the kingdom of Delaware as the guardian for directors against shareholder rights...
...stake is the master plan process, by which large institutions in Boston have been required to chart their plans for growth and development over the next five years. The master plans are crucial to Boston's efforts to overhaul zoning codes--which have not been reformed in 25 years--and protect fragile neighborhoods from explosive institutional growth at their fringes...