Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gregory R. Schwartz '89, another committee co-chairman, said he hoped the committee would "heighten awareness" of the issues at stake in the Bork hearings. He added that committee members hoped to "mobilize the campus" in opposition to Bork...
...plan's architect, Arias has much at stake. The son of a wealthy coffee-plantation owner who studied in both the U.S. and England, Arias, 46, based his presidential campaign last year on the theme "Peace with Arias." On the day of his inauguration, he told U.S. Ambassador Lewis Tambs that the contras could no longer use a U.S.-built airstrip in northern Costa Rica, near the Nicaraguan border. When the order was ignored, Arias became more determined. A year later he unveiled a peace proposal that became the foundation for the accord adopted in Guatemala City. "Reagan believes that...
...Ford, the experience was akin to buying a new car and then suffering a serious dent only a few days later. The No. 2 U.S. automaker began last week by announcing plans to acquire a 75% stake (price: more than $30 million) in Aston Martin Lagonda, the manufacturer of hand-assembled sports cars that carry an average price tag of $130,000. While the British car company has sputtered financially, its products have long enjoyed a sterling reputation. Queen Elizabeth II gave an Aston Martin to Prince Charles for his 21st birthday, and James Bond has driven the cars...
...rode the FDIC and Abboud, who will assume management of the company from Houston's powerful Elkins family. The current shareholders will end up with less than a 3% stake in First City. The FDIC intervention, financed by annual premiums that U.S. banks pay to the federal agency, kept the Government from having to pay depositors an estimated $1.8 billion if the bank had gone out of business. But "this is no bailout," asserts FDIC Chairman L. William Seidman. "In terms of the stockholders and management, the bank has failed...
...sort of electoral verdict that sitting Presidents dread. In balloting that is certain to complicate the life of Argentine President Raul Alfonsin between now and the end of his six-year term in 1989, the opposition Peronists captured 16 of the 21 governorships at stake and swept away the ruling Radical Civic Union's absolute majority in the 254-seat lower house of Congress. The Radicals now hold 117 seats, the Peronists an unnerving...