Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should not turn away from the task of seeking equity simply because the goals we seek require complex mechanisms. What's at stake is our image of ourselves. What should spur us on is the knowledge that 37 million of our neighbors don't have financial protection from the costs of illness. What should help mobilize us is the fact that if we fail to act, tomorrow or the next day or week or year you or I may be among those who help swell that number...
...home, we feel, to write and plan pieces for the Living section. "This story is a perfect example of what the section can do," says Smilgis. "It treats a social issue from a human viewpoint, taking the temperature and mood of the country while explaining exactly what is at stake...
...followed was painfully clear: she was being fired. Recalls Cooper: "It hit me like a ton of bricks. I was in a state of shock." Cooper, 44, had worked for IBM and one of its subsidiaries for 24 years. She was transferred to MCI when IBM bought a minority stake in the smaller firm last March. Even though Cooper got a severance package of nearly $38,000 from MCI, she remains stunned as she looks for a new job: "They told me to clear my desk and pack my things. And I was gone, just like that. Poof...
...organization which purports to seek and promote justice shouldn't use the laws of a free society to restrict freedom of expression. But the U.N. apparently is willing to ignore democratic principles when the sanctity of its logo is at stake...
...been approached by representatives of the Claremont Group, a New York City-based investment-banking firm, to discuss a leveraged buy-out. O'Donnell presumably was inclined to consider such a transaction, since it would probably have given him and his fellow managers a more significant ownership stake in the company. Johnston and some board members, however, thought they should have been consulted before any powwows took place with investment bankers...