Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understand correctly, Mr. Baldwin does not like liberals. Well, I have news for him. There are thousands of radicals, liberals and just plain, ordinary white people in the United States who are people of good heart and have none of these prejudices he has taken his stake of land...
With $12,000 in prize money and the guarantee of at least a briefly successful career at stake, 34 of the world's best young violinists had entered the 10th Queen Elisabeth, the most glamorous of all the music competitions. The stiff preliminaries had winnowed the competitors down to twelve-including four Russians and four Americans. But in the finals, the Russians were the masters of the younger and shakier Americans, whose main virtue was the exuberant individualism of their playing. When the prizes were announced, the Russians took first, second, fourth and ninth; the Americans placed third, fifth...
...money in big real estate ventures in the future will have to have enough financial strength to be able to wait a long time for his investment to pay off. It may well be that the days are over when such brash showmen as Zeckendorf could parlay a small stake into millions. The real estate entrepreneurs of the future are likely to be found among insurance companies (which now invest about 3% of their total assets in real estate) and big institutional investors, who will have success simply because they can afford to wait...
...grown up and to convince weight watchers and cholesterol worriers that they have nothing to worry about. (Margarine makers spend some $22 million a year to convince them subtly that they do, and both sides quote the American Medical Association to make their points.) Every U.S. taxpayer has a stake in the dairy industry's success. Despite a drop in the U.'S. cow population from 20.6 million (1950-59 average) to 17.3 million this year, the industry's growing efficiency has nudged production up 5.8% in ten years to an expected 127 billion Ibs. of dairy...
...stake were 144 seats for a House of Representatives, the first freely elected chamber since Morocco won independence from France seven years ago, and the field was wide open. Hassan's major opposition parties, the nationalist Istiqlal and the leftist National Union of Popular Forces, were out in strength, and even the Communist Party-officially outlawed but quietly tolerated-fielded three candidates. Opposition newspapers circulated freely, and one prominent politician got away with calling the King a liar...