Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amazing as any ever delivered in the cause of image repair, alarm bells were ringing: "Baseball is on trial." "Baseball is in trouble." "A cloud called drugs is permeating our game." "The shadow is growing larger and darker by the day." "Stop this menace." At risk and at stake are "a generation of kids" and "a decade of baseball being synonymous with drugs." "We cannot let the season conclude without attacking the problem." "This is baseball's last chance...
...apparent contradiction between the results and the rhetoric of the conference was ascribed by one Western analyst in Peking to Deng's "practice of not overwinning." While Deng enjoys strong support at the top levels of the party hierarchy, many lower-ranking officials, who have no stake in the reform programs, tend to favor the Chen Yun approach. Thus Chen's speech may have been sanctioned as a sort of minority dissent...
...center of the hottest, and most complicated, political fight of the year. The arguments, though often phrased in economic jargon, involve gut issues: prices and jobs. The battle has been joined not only by Washington and Wall Street but by the major industrial powers as well. At stake is nothing less than continued prosperity and friendly relations between the trading nations...
...come back with nothing." Before returning to Geneva, the U.S. delegation, led by Max Kampelman, was summoned to the White House to hear Reagan deliver an impassioned defense of SDI. "Their instructions were to stand pat," said a top official. "It's time for the Soviets to play their stake...
...name like no other. The Rockefeller clan connotes wealth and history, power and prestige. That was one reason the public last week leaped at a $1.3 billion worldwide offering to buy a 71.5% stake in Rockefeller Center, the crown jewel of the family fortune. The 14-building complex located in midtown Manhattan includes the art deco Radio City Music Hall and the RCA Building...