Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lords and con men? As investigators probe the debris of the vast scandal, the name that most persistently comes up is Bank of America, one of the top five in the U.S. The bank, which co-founded B.C.C.I. in 1972, takes pains to emphasize that it sold off its stake in the Middle Eastern institution in 1980. But ties between the two were far more extensive and long lasting than Bank of America has publicly described. Now the San Francisco-based bank concedes that during the 1980s, it handled some $1.3 billion a day of B.C.C.I. money. It held B.C.C.I...
Burstein, who has a personal stake in the issue since his father worked for The Daily News and died of a heart attack during the strike, is right to attack Hoge's political views on strikes. But those views should not be enough to keep Hoge from teaching his study group. Granted, Burstein doesn't plan to blockade the IOP, but he does want Hoge removed...
...State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, headed by Morton Abramowitz. Only when Gates called directly to say that Casey wanted no footnotes did Abramowitz finally yield. In their defense, those who gave in may not have understood that a radical change in U.S. policy was at stake. Gates has testified that even he was in the dark. The Senate intelligence committee has obtained documentary evidence, however, suggesting that Gates knew arms sales to Iran were under consideration...
...East peace conference, which he hopes to get off the ground next month. Pounding the lectern, he warned that a divisive congressional debate over the guarantees "could well destroy our ability to bring one or more of the parties" to the Middle East peace table. "Too much is at stake to let domestic politics take precedence over peace," Bush declared...
...going to be a very, very simple kind of election," said CCA Councillor Edward N. Cyr. "What's at stake in this election is progressive government, what's at stake is our two-year-old experiment in democratic government based on the elimination of patronage and responsiveness to local needs...