Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least four clean shots next year at grounding the MX for good. Predicted a confident O'Neill: "The MX will never be deployed." Warned a less certain Democratic colleague, Representative Les AuCoin of Oregon: "MX is in its coffin, but we still have to drive the silver stake through its heart...
...progress is Quinn's Book, another novel in the Albany cycle. Kennedy is increasing his nonwriting stake in the city as well. He recently bought the downtown rooming house where Legs Diamond was shot dead...
...high-strung baby boomers have mostly passed 30 and are trotting toward 40: they have chosen careers, settled down, married, stabilized. Families and mortgages act as ballast. Furthermore, such a fresh, burgeoning stake in the future naturally fosters hope for the future. In political terms, a concern for the next century can turn right or left, toward economic conservatism, for instance, or toward a special determination to avoid nuclear war. Or up, into sheer ambition. Says Yippie turned Yuppie Jerry Rubin: "People are very patriotic. I'm much more pro-American than I have ever been in my life...
...stake is a sizable portion of the U.S. machine of government: 33 Senate seats, all 435 House seats and 13 governorships, as well as thousands of local jobs. The Democrats, starting out with a 99-vote majority in the House and 35 of the 50 gubernatorial prizes, are hoping to regain control of the Senate, which they lost in 1980 for the first time in 28 years. The G.O.P. now has an edge of ten seats. The Republicans are counting on good economic times and Ronald Reagan's popularity to translate into major gains for their candidates. Their goals...
...search for truth and understanding and to encounter the personal development of all who study and work within their walls. Because the right to speak freely and the opportunity to enjoy an open forum for debate are so closely related to these central purposes, the university has a stake in free speech that goes beyond the interests of its members. Its integrity as an institution is bound up in the maintenance of this freedom, and each denial of the right to speak diminishes the university itself in some measure...