Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than three pence of their tax money was involved in a federal aid-to-education program that paid for tutoring in parochial schools. But their case was dismissed for lack of "standing." The gist of "standing," the Supreme Court once explained, is whether a plaintiff's personal stake in the suit is enough "to assure sharp prosecution of the issues." And a taxpayer's stake has been held too small to support a suit contending that a federal expenditure exceeded Congress' general powers...
...Lithium Corp. of America made Gulf Resources, in a single stroke, one of the world's largest producers of lithium, a superlight metal that, in various forms, is used in such disparate products as laundry bleach, synthetic rubber and swimming-pool disinfectant. Lithium Corp. also has a stake in a venture to extract potash and other minerals from Utah's Great Salt Lake. Bunker Hill, meanwhile, is one of the U.S.'s biggest producers of zinc, lead and silver. By acquiring it, Gulf Resources also strengthened its profit position, since Bunker Hill had earnings last year...
...going to raise hell downtown." In a more elegant setting, he told a group of business executives in the ballroom of Washington's Shoreham Hotel essentially the same thing: "It is suicidal for any nation to develop a people who do not feel they have a stake in that society. In due course that people will rise up and destroy that nation, even though they may destroy themselves in the process...
...judge," Gowon assured reporters. "Ceasefire? We Nigerians have really big hearts, but the peace talks have nothing to do with our military operations. This operation will continue until Ojukwu has renounced all ideas of secession." To the Nigerians, of course, the highest principle is at stake: the territorial integrity of their once proud nation, Africa's most populous. Unfortunately, Nigeria is only partly a nation; it is, in fact, an arbitrary conglomeration of hostile tribes. The Ibos are motivated by a principle, too: self-preservation. As the Oxford-educated Ojukwu told his people after the fall of Port Harcourt...
Bogus obviously hasn't defined its future with first issue. A set of four different essays could, for instance, give the review an entirely different cast. Subsequent issues may stake out a particular part of the vaguely defined "literary criticism" terrain for Bogus' concentration. It could emphasize outstanding undergraduate essays in literary history (like Egan's and DeYoung's); print more prestigious "professional" work (like that of Gelpi and L'Heureux); or review contemporary literary concerns, as Lubin's parody does. Any of these categories could define a separate review. To expect one journal to handle all adequately is, perhaps...