Word: staked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...groups have a stake in improving public schools. As private school fundraisers have shown, alumni are willing to donate time or money to the alma mater--aware that drunken cheers at the Homecoming game are inadequate support. For civic activists and businessmen, the interest is more concrete: graduates that can't read a ballot or sign a paycheck don't make good citizens or productive workers. These diverse groups share a common interest in making the schools run better, and could organize as Friends of, say. South Plantation High School...
...concerned instead with the devastating impact this case has had on the lives and careers of the victims. Prevailing social attitudes tend to subject the victims of crimes like rape or sexual harassment to more scrutiny than the perpetrators, yet the victims in this case have far more at stake than does Professor Dominguez: their careers are not as well established, they do not have the protection of tenure, and the harasser will continue to occupy a leading role in their discipline. Furthermore, the grapevine of academic gossip will brand them as troublemakers...
...stimulate further study of particular issues regarding the conflict. Though a crucial history very pertinent to events today, few people have actually tried to learn about Vietnam by themselves. Vietnam's most important result may be to encourage people to be more informed and aware of the issues at stake right now in places like Afghanistan, Lebanon, Angola and El Salvador...
...market and distribute wines effectively." Paying off Coca-Cola will not be difficult. Seagram's plans to pay the $200 million purchase price in part with $120 million in annual dividends from its 50.3 million shares of Du Pont stock; the distiller acquired most of its 21% stake in Du Pont, now worth $2.6 billion, as a result of the 1981 battle to take over Conoco...
...stake is information that may shed light on the question of why the doomed 747 strayed so disastrously into Soviet territory, and also on the bitter U.S.-Soviet quarrel over who was at fault. The two black boxes-actually, they are bright orange-are small (5 in. by 9 in. by 15 in.) but heavily armored to withstand explosion, heat and pressure. Their tapes of conversations in the airliner's cockpit could show whether the crew had any warning before a Soviet Su-15 interceptor knocked Flight 007 out of the sky, killing all 269 aboard...