Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another company might have cut its losses and dropped the Junior, but by redoubling its efforts IBM ensured itself a share of the $2.8 billion market for home computer systems. Corporate pride was also at stake in the effort to snatch victory from the jaws of what was shaping up as defeat. "IBM didn't like having this black eye," says Egil Juliussen, chairman of Future Computing. "They wanted to figure out a way to help the machine along, and they did." #151; By Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
...Anwar Sadat accepted the Camp David accords and subsequently signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. For the Jordanian monarch, the three-day visit was aimed at forging a moderate Arab consensus in the Middle East. His plan: to convene a peace conference of all those with a stake in the region, including the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Soviet Union...
...their merchandise to arrive. This Christmas season, though, Bean will guarantee shipment of its maple syrup, Chamois Cloth shirts and other items in just four days via Federal Express for an extra $7.50. Says John Findlay, Bean's senior vice president: "There's too much at stake at this time of year to make our customers wait...
...ability to tinker with DNA, to replace a defective heart, disrupts the ethical standards we use to judge those powers. Secondly, the sheer speed at which science forces issues upon us outstrips ethical standards. Rapid technological change leaves little time to assess consequences; we cannot know what is at stake, because science carves out new territory faster than we can discover the hidden problems. Consequently, the issues force the public to take extreme sides, to condemn or condone. In the political arena, the policy makers, also at a loss, tend either to let the new technology run wild, or cripple...
...that such an asemblage of brilliant minds reached such a mediocre conclusion and upheld the status quo. And yet, isn't it ironic that none of these critical voices are heard when the Bishops speak out on abortion or nuclear arms, but only when their own interests are at stake...