Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sprawling West Side barrio, shirtsleeved Mayoral Candidate Henry Cisneros joked with small children and chatted with old people in Spanish. Polls showed that his lead was diminishing rapidly over his nearest rival, John Steen, a wealthy insurance executive from the city's heavily Anglo North Side. At stake: the opportunity to make Cisneros, despite a tantalizingly close race, the first Mexican-American mayor of a major American city. "Now is the time, compadres," the slim, Harvard-educated city councilman told them simply. "If on the day after the election I hear you saying 'Poor Henry, if only...
President Reagan should be commended for his handling of the situation in El Salvador [March 2]. Since our nations share the same continent, our vital interests and national security are at stake, not just because that country is experiencing civil strife, but because that struggle is being actively supported by the Soviet Union...
...However much I might be entitled legally to do whatever I please," Halpern said before 70 people at the center. "I have no moral or intellectual right to substitute my judgment for theirs on issues where their survival is at stake...
...retrenchment and rapid turnover (averaging from five to seven years in college and university presidencies). Choosing the best candidate would seem to require minimizing open involvement of constituencies. But the person so chosen then faces the task of securing eventual legitimation is-a-vis all those who claim a stake in the outcome. In a number of instances, those chosen would not have been chosen by faculty or students, perhaps because they did not come up the preferred academic or professional routes, but have nevertheless proven themselves by virtue of their character, their convictions, their quick intelligence, their empathy...
...challenge to his leadership in nearly seven years as Chancellor. Last week, amid flaring controversies within his own Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.), he hastily called an emergency meeting of party leaders. "We've got to get this mess under control fast," Schmidt told aides. "Too much is at stake...