Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central issue raised by the newspaper strike cannot be settled by the ordinary processes of negotiation. It is the same issue that is at stake in the East and Gulf Coast dock-workers' strikes and the Philadelphia transit workers' strike: how to deal with men whose jobs are imperiled by the introduction of new machinery. The I.T.U.'s automation policy is extremely conservative; the typographers have rejected even the most reasonable management offer on technological unemployment. The publishers are willing not to fire any men to make room for advanced machinery, but to leave unfilled vacancies created by death...
Rewards for Billboards. Other oathtaking Governors, with perhaps less at stake in national terms, tailored their cloth to fit their own political patterns...
...dispute first arose last spring when the NCAA created its Federation to challenge the AAU's control of amateur track. At stake is the power to control the selection of candidates for the Olympic and Pan-American games. The AAU has always set the qualifications for participation in the tryouts for both events...
Republican candidates for the House of Representatives, where all seats are at stake in every biennial election, polled 24,116,473 votes (47.11%), against 19,843,471 votes (43.29%) in 1958. The vote for Democratic House candidates also in creased last November, from 25,801,888 to 26,948,221, but the party's percentage fell from...
...most Britons last week, it seemed probable that a British Prime Minister and a U.S. President might never again be able to talk over their mutual problems with frankness and friendliness. On the contrary. John Kennedy was able to persuade Harold Macmillan that the issue at stake was not Anglo-U.S. amity but a costly, contrary contraption that would add no credibility to Britain's deterrent. The Prime Minister came away with Polaris, which is both a proved deterrent and concrete proof of a continuing, exclusive relationship with the U.S. In the 22 months before...