Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delicate questions raised by the death of the Egyptian leader. How best to beef up the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Sadat's successor? How to keep the Libyans at bay in the Sudan? Perhaps most important, how to speed up the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy? At stake is not only the influence of the United States in a crucial part of the globe, but, ultimately, issues of peace or war in the Middle East...
...station KCET. "Our prime-time ratings have doubled in the last two years, but I still view the entry of the cultural cables as a challenge. We will have to provide programs that, the audiences can't get elsewhere." Viewers, whose careers and livelihoods are not at stake, may be excused a small, smug smile as they prepare for the battle to come. They can look forward not only to something good to watch, but to a whole lot of good somethings...
...were honest and their lack of endorsement does not mean I will abandon their interests. "Fighting back tears?" Hardly. A snappy dresser? "Aggressive?" Its great to be a woman candidate. A stalking horse for Brattle Street conservatives? Silly talk at a time when there's much too much at stake. Equivocal about housing policies in cambridge? No, just honest. Anyone pushing simplistic rhetoric about housing is not serving the best interests of the cause they champion. I have met too many elderly poor being squeezed out of their apartments, seen too much dilapidated housing, seen too many moderate income families...
With Santa Fe, however, the courting was cordial from the start. Preliminary talks first began last summer between Santa Fe Chairman E.L. Shannon Jr. and Sabah, who initially proposed that Kuwait acquire a 25% stake in the firm to make use of the company's vaunted engineering expertise. Discussions eventually progressed to an agreement in principle to buy the whole company. Santa Fe's board of directors, which includes former President Gerald Ford, gave its approval last week, and shareholders are expected to agree to the deal at a special meeting on Dec. 1. Kuwait will then have...
...only a small per cent defecting for the Progressive, and almost one third of all Afrikaaners supporting the Herligte National Party, a reactionary splinter group willing to allow no concessions for the nation's Blacks. The whites, perhaps with due cause, fear that their survival as Afrikaaners is at stake, and claim any concerted effort at reform can only lead to their entire system unravelling...