Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most crucial time in the world's history, when our hopes for the future of mankind are at stake, TIME'S choices for Men of the Year are the men most responsible for proliferation of arms and increased global tensions...
...trying, though. When a July 1983 report by Goldman, Sachs favored a $500 million-a-year stock-repurchase plan as a way of boosting the company's market price, the Petersen-dominated board of directors rejected the idea because it would have increased the Getty family's stake to about 53%. Indeed, the board took just the opposite tack, deciding in early October to issue new shares that would dilute Getty's influence...
...particularly knowledgeable about petroleum stocks. In 1981, he had enough savvy to sell off energy shares from his portfolio before the oil glut drove down their value. Day, however, still has a huge personal stake in the industry. Through his mother, Willametta Keck Day, he is one of the heirs to the Keck family's holdings in Houston's Superior Oil, a 25% share worth about $5 billion...
...Putting in more American forces on a fairly large scale strikes me as the least useful of the solutions." Murray said. "I don't think than the country will support it and I don't think our interests are, that deeply at stake...
Most masters agree that the major discrepancy between the House system and the Cambridge-Oxford model is the financial independence of the colleges. Each college has its own endowment at Oxford and Cambridge, and consequently the Masters and the Senior Common Room have a great stake in the House...