Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with which his government obtained a major loan designed to test its "creditworthiness" on the international money market. On Oct. 1. 1980, the Financial Guardian also discounted the South African government's altruistic pretensions in soliciting the loan, and pointed to a long-term strategy designed to increase the stake of Western banks and governments in the preservation of the status quo in South Africa. Both journals agreed that the South African government was the sole initiator of the loan and its motives were purely self-interested...
...cleared the air, Reagan further obscured it. The President saw no point in telegraphing any of the other moves that Washington may have in mind to deal with a region that is stubbornly aboil with Marxist-inspired insurrection, and where the Administration feels that vital U.S. interests are at stake. As Reagan put it at his White House press conference: "I just don't believe that you discuss those options or what you may or may not do in advance of doing any of those things...
According to Sandinista documents, Miskito leaders have been involved with anti-Sandinista exiles in at least 26 cross-border raids against Nicaraguan forces since November. During one of the antigovernment actions, insurgents are claimed to have driven a stake into the chest of a wounded soldier, disemboweled him and slit his throat. That grisly incident may be pure propaganda. But there is little doubt that the offensive it was intended to justify-an undeclared war on the mostly peaceful, independent Indians who only recently were among the Sandinistas' friends-marks a new, brutal and tragic phase in Nicaragua...
...there is a second principle at stake, which Star interprets as "the simplistic belief that 'bigness is badness.' "Agreed: there are those who simply don't like big business and who would freely use the antitrust laws to enact their views, However, a closer look reveals a large, reliable body of scholarship, which demonstrates the adverse consequences of one of a few firms controlling the bulk of a market--irrespective of their conduct. Ironically, for example, some firms in difficult-to-enter markets gain high profits which are unrelated to superior business practices or R&D. The general idea...
From the leaders' viewpoint, however, it was obviously imperative to strike at Franz and the others. The dissenters' Luther-like emphasis upon "Scripture alone" rather than official interpretation was only one threat to the foundations of the religion. Many other central Watch Tower doctrines were also at stake...