Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ineffective attempts at organization which preceded the actual protest. More importantly, Choi does not ask, if Latinos and Asian Americans are apathetic to issues which affect them directly, is it really because they do not care? Perhaps it is rather that they does not know what is at stake, precisely because they have never had no Ethnic Studies course... Amy C. Tang '96 Political Committee Co-Chair Asian American Association
...face are etched into the memory of every American who read a newspaper in 1968. His summary execution by General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of South Vietnam's national police, during the second day of the 1968 Tet offensive in Saigon altered U.S. public opinion about what was at stake in the war as much as any other event did. A quarter-century later, the victim's widow Nguyen Thi Lop, 60, lives in a decrepit house on the outskirts of what is now called Ho Chi Minh City. For a decade after the war, she and her three children...
There is more than just late-night snacking at stake here. Tommy's House of Pizza is a valiant, noble effort at making the American dream come true...
...African-Americans and Jews have an obligation to come together. Our survival is at stake, and we share common values, dreams, and hopes," Jackson said...
...positions seem proper. The real test of Clinton's professed commitment to human rights for Haitians will turn on his efforts to change that nation's repressive policies. China is a trickier case, and Clinton's newly expressed caution is well placed. The U.S. indeed has "a big stake in not isolating" China. If Beijing continues its economic liberalization, a domestic political thaw will eventually follow. Clinton should avoid any action that could fuel the Chinese leaders' worst impulses; a reversion would have consequences not only for the Chinese but for all of East Asia, whose galloping economy represents...