Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suppose it is no credit to the South Africa divestment movement to say that questions of investment policy are truly peripheral to the real moral and social questions at stake in that country. But, lacking any real effort on the part of the United States to ameliorate conditions in South Africa, divestment is sadly the least we can do. Threatening mass extinction to protect us from the Soviet threat is probably the most...
These introductions are neither particularly moving, nor particularly dramatic; they are actually rather matter-of-fact. These are ordinary people. And when disaster strikes, their plight is all the more understandable and poignant. The real issues at stake become eminently clear. Without homes these people struggle just to keep their families and careers going...
...impact of toasting equipment on undergraduate quality of life can not be underestimated. What's at stake here is a lot more than just the fate of a few pieces of baked dough. What we're talking about is people. What are we really trying to teach our students? Complacency in mediocrity? The beauty of inefficiency? I fervently hope...
...stake in today's race is the tenuous balance between conservative and liberal members of the city council, which is currently split between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) and four neighborhood-oriented Independents...
When Bunting and Wilkinson do go out on a stake-out together as the book concludes, the author approaches the more familiar ground of the Midnights chronicles. But the effort is abortive, the incident doesn't amount to much and leaves the reader teased and frustrated and no more satisfied...