Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...progress" in the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), which reconvened last week in Geneva. Said he: "These actions reflect a bipartisan consensus on arms control, and new flexibility in the negotiations-steps to be viewed seriously by the Soviets and all others who have a stake in world peace...
...squabbles were ostensibly over the fiscal 1984 budget. But behind last week's skirmishes on Capitol Hill, Democrats and Republicans were in fact scurrying to stake out the political high ground...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. at San Diego State University: "We cannot acquiesce in the drift toward Armageddon. For the stake is supreme: it is the fate of humanity itself. Let me say at once that the answer to the arms race is not unilateral nuclear disarmament. The renunciation of nuclear weapons by the West would place the democratic world at the mercy of Soviet Communism. History has proven beyond all argument that mercy is not a salient characteristic of any Communist regime. Neither the arms race nor unilateral disarmament holds out hope. What we must do rather is to revive...
...bicycles, and which he built into a nationwide network whose 117,000 employees last year delivered 1.6 billion packages to more than 35,000 communities, earning the company more than $300 million; in Seattle. Casey was a believer in giving executives at every level a say, and a stake, in running the company. As a result of his profit-sharing plan, among the first in American business, U.P.S. is today almost entirely owned by its 12,000 managers and supervisors, their families and heirs...
...that the poison might be produced by fungi that often grow on bee excrement. In any case, Meselson says, the bee theory "opens up the realm of natural explanations for yellow rain in a way not previously done." The problem for the Government was that with international relations at stake, there was still so much room for scientific controversy...