Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fifth-straight win for Yale (7-1 overall, 5-0 Ivy) sets up a showdown next week at Princeton with a share of the Ivy title at stake...
...have to say much to motivate the team," O'Brien said. "Everyone realizes what is at stake, our first Ivy League championship. For each game we usually come up with some theme to motivate us. Today's theme is `just...
Nobody likes abortion. Pro-choice advocates do not consider abortion an attractive option to birth-control. What the pro-choice position realizes, however, is that once government takes reproductive decision-making away from individual men and women, fetal life as well as the lives of women are at stake. Legal abortion is a right that guarantees women--not government, not private business--the power of all reproductive choice...
...Zenith, the decision was painful. The suburban-Chicago company surprised the high-tech industry last week by agreeing to sell its prosperous computer division to France's Groupe Bull for about $635 million. In doing so, Zenith, the last major U.S. maker of TV sets, decided to stake its future on that risky and supercompetitive business...
...stake is not just cultural pride but also megabucks: by 1998 European broadcasters will purchase an estimated $4 billion in programs. U.S. exporters, who have come to rely on foreign sales of their shows, assailed the new rule. "The European Community today took a step backward in time," complained Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. "They said no to competition and viewer choice and yes to trade barriers." In Congress, some even called for retaliatory measures...