Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COUPLES, by John Updike. Wife swapping is the game, described in living off-color, but soul saving is the real stake in this rich and subtly rewarding novel by the crown prince of American letters...
...continued prosperity and the stability of the dollar. The Senate and House conferees eventually agreed, but -largely as a result of their annoyance at the President's blunt words-only at the $6 billion price the conservatives had demanded. With the stability of the economy at stake, Johnson can hardly refuse to go along, but he cannot take much pleasure in a package that promises to gut some of his fondest domestic programs...
Though only a third of the council seats were at stake, the rout left Labor in control of only 43 out of 374 boroughs in England and Wales; only five of the 43 were in big cities...
...have that much of a stake in the system now," Greenburg observed, "but I might in ten years." Graduate education is "a real socialization system...
...commitment because they want to keep open as many options as possible. They just don't know what they will do in any particular crisis. And even if the nuclear powers did give such a commitment who knows whether they would keep it if their own survival was at stake...