Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...groups "were very successful in creating the feeling that a very great deal was at stake here," Daniel Soyer, communications director for the Massachusetts Municipal Association, said last week...
...Central America in 1984 is about $600 million; that is less than one-tenth of what Americans will spend this year on coin-operated video games." But failing to make such an investment, he insisted, would have dire consequences. "The national security of all the Americas is at stake in Central America. If we cannot defend ourselves there, we cannot expect to prevail else where. Our credibility would collapse, our alliances would crumble, and the safety of our homeland would be put at jeopardy...
...Lebanon. If the remark was offhanded, the mission was not: in his first visit to the region since taking office last summer, Shultz faced the task of bringing about an Israeli-Lebanese agreement after four frustrating months of negotiations. Much more than a signed piece of paper was at stake. Success not only would boost the chances of resuscitating President Reagan's peace plan for Unking the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to Jordan, but dispel the notion that the Reagan Administration is clumsy in its conduct of foreign affairs...
From there, Finn expertly directed the offense, which put on a dazzling passing show to stake an 8-2 lead with just five minutes left in the first half. Three quick Dartmouth goals, however, cut the Crimson lead to 8-5 and shifted the pressure to the Harvard squad...
Into this den of iniquity marches Sergeant Sarah Brown (Nan Hughes) at the head of her Salvation Army. Sarah has the misfortune to be at stake in a bet between Nathan Detroit, who needs a quick $1000 to finance his crap game, and "Sky" Masterson, a rich gambler looking for action. Detroit has but Sky that he cannot get the righteous Sister Sarah to go with him to Havana...