Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central--and very different--issues are at stake in the current Mather House debate. First, many residents have taken sides about an alleged incident of harassment in Mather two weeks ago, in which a gay student claims he was verbally and physically assaulted by non-Harvard students but other witnesses say the harassment went both ways...
...which he held hidden interests. "He saw the thrifts as one big gold mine, an endless pit of money," says Joseph Cage, a U.S. Attorney in Louisiana who prosecuted Beebe. Rather than exert his ownership outright, Beebe often held control behind the scenes. One of his tactics was to stake friends like the high-flying financier Don Dixon, who relied on Beebe's backing to acquire Texas-based Vernon Savings & Loan in 1982 and rode the institution to a spectacular collapse...
...vote, the classic definition of a safe district. The traditional levers of incumbency, augmented by the largesse of political-action committees, have created this modern version of a rotten-borough system. In the four House elections since 1980, a total of 1,740 seats were at stake, yet only about 30 sitting Congressmen were defeated for reasons other than redistricting and ethics. Old-fashioned democratic reasons, that is, like having a strong opponent or taking stands unpopular with the voters...
...some, more heartfelt reasons than money are at stake. When Stockton, Ill., dairy farmer Stewart Schlafer, 41, was a teenager, he pleaded in vain with his father to tear down the family's 1876 barn and build a new one. Now, age and memories have convinced Schlafer that he should keep and improve his Gothic-style beauty. The barn, he says, "is the character and soul of our farm...
...Moscow conference made plain the huge pitfalls of a superpower crisis in the nuclear age. "The horrifying extent to which we all misunderstood what was going on," said McNamara, "is the absolutely fundamental lesson for the future. Given what's at stake, crises are too dangerous to manage. They must be avoided...