Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When our vital interests are at stake, when there is a clear, sharply defined objective that is achievable at acceptable cost, and when you are sure you can build the support here at home. The gulf war is a good example of that. Especially when it can be done through multinational support. It's appropriate for us to support the airlift to Sarajevo. If we do get involved further there, it certainly ought to be through a U.N. aegis and not on our own, and we need to be very careful that we don't have a European Beirut...
...other countries come asking us for aid to settle their internal disputes, preserve their environment, or rescue their economy. Our government should face the fact that America just doesn't have the money to give to the Croats, Russia, or other trouble spots in which we have no immediate stake. We need money first for the millions of homeless, the one in five children in America who are starving, and the victims of unemployment...
Asserting that the very legitimacy of the court's role in establishing precedent was at stake, the three-Justice opinion -- concurred in by Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens -- stated, "Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles of morality, but that cannot control our decision. Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code." Despite this affirmation of Roe, the court permitted greater restrictions on abortion by the states. In a 7-to-2 vote, the three were joined by Justices William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas...
...House committees immediately approved versions of a Freedom of Choice bill, which would establish a federal right to abortion. While both chambers are expected to pass such a bill, Bush is certain to veto it, ensuring that abortion will be a major issue in the presidential election. At stake, of course, is the right to name future Justices -- and as Blackmun, the original author of Roe, pointed out, the case is only one vote away from being overruled. "I am 83 years old," he wrote. "I cannot remain on this court forever, and when I do step down, the confirmation...
...task will be to ensure that the effort remains successful five years -- and 25 years -- after that. To achieve such lasting improvements will require more than a spurt of money and a flurry of energy; it will require engaging the people of South Central L.A. and giving them a stake in the outcome...