Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Central America, markets and private holdings are at stake. Grenada, on the other hand, can be seen as a set-up for image-raising. It domestic affairs as in foreign policy, one of the most disturbing Orwellian parallels is the near fusion of government and media. Both have the same basic goal--to keep things as they are, in the hands of the wealthy...
...rights of the week. How hypocritical. Would Mr. Gooen tell those pushing desegregation through the courts that they are wrong and that they should only sit on the sidelines and write editorials? And with abortion, it is not just the right to an equal education that is at stake, it is the right to life...
...flashed annoyance. And he was exhilarated when he saw someone shine. He constantly tested and challenged those around him, often sounding preachy, sometimes downright rude when he interrupted in mid-sentence, pushing them to be better. "By now," remembers Ueberroth, "we felt the reputation of the country was at stake. It was frightening." Often he would stroll through the hangar, sure to prod with questions, and more questions: the exact location of Rwanda or the spelling of the names of International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch and Director Monique Berlioux. "Peter is demanding and self- demanding," says Agnes Mura...
General Ariel Sharon's libel suit against TIME [PRESS, Nov. 26] puts at stake the freedom of the press and the right of Americans to be fully informed. If news that is honestly gathered can be suppressed by the threat of a libel suit by a public figure, the press is gagged...
...Heresies. He loathed the emerging Luther so profoundly that his theological arguments collapsed into scatological abuse. When his treatises failed to halt the Reformation, More took to burning the treatises of his enemies, and when book burning failed, he turned to body burning, exulting in the fires at the stake that carried Protestant heretics to hell "where the wretches burn forever...