Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...significance of Chow's victory, however, could be far heavier than his pancakes. At stake in the case, say libel experts, is the right of critics to express their own judgments. Reviews, which are by nature subjective opinions, have generally been exempt from the standards of libel applied to news stories. But the distinction in libel cases between reporting and criticism is now being called into question...
...have space-based missile defenses, would never abuse the shield by launching an offensive first strike. But, concedes Major General John Storrie, an Air Force space official, "we walk a very narrow line in these matters between strategic defense and offense." The Soviets cannot reasonably be expected to stake their survival on Reagan's earnest assertion that "the United States does not start fights...
...residence of Sir Paul Scoon, Governor-General of Grenada, to discuss the island's political future. Grenada's nine-member interim advisory council, which will administer until elections can be held, later also convened at Scoon's to thresh out the problems of their succession. At stake is the introduction of a democratic system to replace the institutions that were swept away in the tempest of dictatorship, socialist revolution and armed upheaval that has racked Grenada in recent years. Scoon's legal adviser, Commonwealth Constitutional Scholar Antony Rushford, says that Grenada's British-style Independence...
...most vivid indication of the souring attitude toward the press came when the Reagan Administration invaded Grenada and excluded reporters from the scene. Journalists argued impassionedly that the press's freedom and the public's "right to know" were at stake. But to many of their countrymen, the lack of coverage seemed inconsequential-even gratifying-as if laryngitis had silenced a chronic complainer...
...painkiller that Ralph Nader's health group has attacked as being addictive, and marketed DES, a pregnancy drug that researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital linked to cancer. The company plans to appeal the Oraflex decision. With so many more cases still to be decided, Lilly has a huge stake in the outcome...