Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there are financial issues at stake at the state level, too, says Kevin Casey, Harvard's director of state relations. Casey and his associates are fighting to keep the close to $1 million in scholarship money the University currently receives from the state each year. The state would like to give this money to public colleges and universities...
Certainly that is how Bush has come to see this war. Time and again, he made clear that for him, the rationale was not merely geopolitical; there was more at stake than Persian Gulf oil or, as James Baker once put it, American jobs. The President's critics, from Mikhail Gorbachev to protesters on the home front, were right when they accused him of having an objective that went beyond the United Nations mandate of expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait. For its Commander in Chief, Desert Storm became a moral crusade, targeted against a leader whose very regime...
...advance that the accused will not face death. So far, Canadian authorities have not sought those promises in the Ng and Kindler cases; the defendants' lawyers want the court to order Canada to do so. "Technical distinctions such as borders have little relevance when human life is at stake," argues Julius Grey, Kindler's lawyer. "Canada should not be party to anything to do with capital punishment...
Apparently, the United States' first national priority will be to preserve peace and stability worldwide, whether or not U.S. national interests are at stake. And the United States will act toward this end -- if necessary, through military force -- to the exclusion of all other considerations...
America should get involved in foreign adventures only when American interests are at stake...