Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's settlement lifted the Government's yearlong freeze on Rich's U.S. assets. In return, the Swiss company paid back about $130 million that was owed to 14 U.S. and European banks. The agreement allowed another Rich firm to sell its 50% stake in TCP Holdings, the parent company of 20th Century-Fox. Rich, a secret partner with Denver Oilman Marvin Davis in the 1981 purchase of the film studio, sold his shares to Davis last week for a reported $116 million...
Those with the most at stake, however, may be the seven members of the Historical Commission, whose ability to achieve its foremost task--the preservation of land-marks--has been called into question. After placing a two-year moratorium on construction at the historic site, in keeping with the provisions of the landmark ordinance, the commission reconsidered is decision on October 4. But still confused about the legality of the demolition and faced with a State Building Code Appeals Board ruling in favor of the developer, commissioners postponed a decision until a meeting yesterday...
...affect only that small fraction of the exploited. He fails to realize that the incredibly high profits which keep U.S. corporations attracted to South Africa are the direct results of the cheap labor supplied by the country's Blacks. He fails to realize that U.S. corporations therefore have a stake in maintaining the apartheid regime. He fails to realize that the oppressive conditions in South Africa could not be changed but U.S. corporations even if they wanted to, because the causes of these conditions are enshrined in South African...
...from Black miners and factory workers which has allowed apartheid to flourish. It is profit which is made without any concern for moral implications of the gains. And it is profit--not, as President Bok would have people believe, the nature of the University in society--which is at stake...
...complex lawsuit has been called the final battle of the Viet Nam War, a legal struggle over key questions of culpability for America's most agonizing military defeat. Yet there is even more at stake as the case of General William Westmoreland vs. CBS News opens this week in a marble-encased Manhattan federal courtroom. Ultimately in question is the unfettered freedom of the U.S. press to examine critically actions of the nation's Government and public figures, as well as the public's growing impatience with perceived abuses of that freedom. It is likely...