Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the Vatican viewpoint, John Paul's program for the church was at stake. Noting the ways in which Hunthausen had strayed from papal policy, a Vatican official last week explained Rome's stand. "No business would stand for a daughter concern that so openly drifted from company policy," he said. "The Pope doesn't like being nasty . . . but he feels that ambiguity is slowly nibbling away at people's perception of the church and that the time has come...
...Game is a truly national collegiate rivalry. Alumni in every state stake a claim to the outcome of The Game...
This year, there will not be the added drama of an Ivy title at stake. This year, the players on the two teams will enter with inglorious records--Harvard sporting a 2-7 record and Yale not much better...
...sufficiently understood within this community to deal satisfactorily with the kinds of issues we have been discussing. By themselves, of course, the situations we have analyzed may seem minor. Probably, only a few faculty members will ever encounter such problems in their own work. Still, the principles at stake are important to a community of scholars, and the kinds of questions we have examined are likely to increase in number and complexity as the importance of research to government and industry continues to grow. If we do not attend to these issues as they arise, we may eventually come...
...results did not constitute the sweeping trend toward a realignment of regional politics that Republicans had sought. Defying tidy analysis, eleven states chose candidates from opposing parties for Senator and Governor. Unlike the Senate contests, the Governors' races found the Democrats far more vulnerable: 27 of 36 seats at stake had been held by Democrats. Yet in the West, where eight Democratic executive mansions were at risk, Republicans managed a net gain of only...