Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's not anyone who wants to die, but there's an important moral principle at stake," said Rich J. Shah '94. "It's very important for the future world order that Saddam Hussein's agression doesn't go unchecked. The principle is having a world where you are safe from being invaded by countries that border you, that are stronger than...
...stake on Dec. 3 is the home-field advantage for a possible rematch in the Jan. 20 N.F.C. championship. A Giants victory would force the 49ers to play that game -- assuming contenders like the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins do not stage an upset -- in the sometimes frigid, windy confines of Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The winner goes on to the Super Bowl and will be favored to beat the best the rival American Football Conference can muster. Among the most likely A.F.C. candidates are the Miami Dolphins, the Buffalo Bills and the Los Angeles Raiders...
...this were just a case of CNN exposing the wrongdoing of the government, there would be no question that they should be allowed to air the tapes. But a pending legal case and the rights of an accused criminal are also at stake here. That makes the accused's rights more important than the right of a news organization to violate them...
...reason, and to make (not concede) that point is by no means to admit that we would be fighting for a few cents a gallon on the price of gasoline or to maintain a fat, self-indulgent life-style. What is at stake is the power to shut off the heat in millions of homes, freezing the old and frail; to close down thousands of factories and utility plants, causing mass unemployment and no little additional poverty. A price run-up or supply restriction sharp enough could touch off a similar worldwide recession -- and an inflationary recession to boot. That...
...nation's capital has always had its share of hawks and doves. But as the possibility of war with Iraq looms ever larger, what powerful figures in official Washington do not have is a direct personal stake in the fate of the troops. No one in the President's Cabinet has a child serving in Saudi Arabia. Of the 535 members of Congress, just two -- Democratic Representatives Kika de la Garza of Texas and Jerry Costello of Illinois -- are known to have sons involved in Operation Desert Shield. By comparison, in 1970 there were 74 congressional children serving in Vietnam...