Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This conflict reflects the underlying power struggle between the School Committee and Flynn. Calling for more money may be part of representing parents, but is also affords an opportunity for minority members to stake out their own political ground...
...chairman's secretary has earned $500,000 in company stock, and a few of her colleagues have become paper millionaires. At Quad/Graphics, a Wisconsin printing company, the average five-year employee owns shares worth $250,000. In Avis car-rental offices across the U.S., employees are touting their stake in the company with lapel buttons that put a new twist on their old "We Try Harder" slogan: OWNERS TRY HARDER...
...workers, about one-fourth of all corporate employees, are enrolled in an ESOP, up from 3 million only a decade ago. More than 9,800 companies in the U.S. offer such programs, including 1,500 in which employees own the majority of the stock. By giving workers a stake in the company's success, enthusiasts say, the programs boost morale and productivity. But the popularity of ESOPs, which were initially created in the 1950s, has been fueled in the 1980s by an unintended and somewhat controversial application: as a double-edged tool useful for both financing corporate takeovers and staving...
...among the public. If he can make that strategy succeed, the rewards can be great. Five of the past ten Vice Presidents have eventually moved into the Oval Office, and two more have been nominated by their parties for the White House. So the whole nation has a stake in whether the Vice President can gradually make the phrase President Quayle something other than a trigger for laughter -- or dismay...
...several of his top aides threatened to resign unless the party approved a resolution paving the way for legalization of the outlawed Solidarity trade union. This was the same Jaruzelski who cracked down hard on Solidarity and spearheaded its outlawing after he proclaimed martial law in 1981. At stake in the remarkable turn of events was not only Jaruzelski's political credibility but the economic direction of a nation seething with frustration over falling living standards, rampant inflation and endless food shortages. "Everyone is angry, anxious about the future, and this inevitably filters into the party and creates a crisis...