Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rage in Harlem, serves the genre well. Duke develops his theme--the classic struggle between obligation to the community and obligation to the self--while painting a realistic and vivid picture of the ghetto. In the drug-steeped world of Deep Cover, salvation as well as justice, is at stake...
School Spirit at Stake...
With thousands of jobs at stake, industry leaders have launched a hard-sell campaign, dubbed U.S. Jobs Now, which features a slick video sent to Capitol Hill lawmakers. "We have a potential customer, and we're trying to make sure that customer gets a fair shake inside the U.S.," says John Capellupo, the president of McDonnell Aircraft. The contractors' argument is that if the U.S. turns down the deal, the Saudis will go to a European manufacturer. The Saudis have 96 F-15s, which they began acquiring in the early 1980s, but when the U.S. refused sales in mid-decade...
...even amid fiscal agony -- odds are strong that higher learning in America will find a way to compete and survive. Like Fortune's annual list of the 500 top U.S. industrial corporations, the pecking order of academic excellence is bound to see eventual changes. But too much is at stake, in pride and passion, for the entire empire of academia to fall ignobly into mediocrity, somnolence and sloth...
...some mythical super-candidate also ignores the fundamental reality of presidential campaigns. It is a brutal process, exposing candidates to intense scrutiny of everything they ever said, did or thought. A new candidate will face that no less than Clinton has, but will he face it with more at stake...