Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frenzied Rush. In Idaho's Coeur d'Alene mining country, source of nearly half the nation's silver, that possibility has helped fire up a frenzied rush to buy land, stake new claims and expand prospecting. "Everybody around here is participating," said R. J. Bruning, editor-publisher of the Northern Idaho Press, who is also president of two small mining firms. "We're all muckers-and we all own mining stocks." Many big mining companies have doubled their exploration budgets and Hecla Mining, the country's largest silver producer, is gambling...
...arbitration" committee which meets this week at Radcliffe to make recommendations about the house system is like one of those loftily named advisory committees President Johnson is in the habit of appointing. The committee has no real function, the issue at stake has grown tiresome, and each side knows what the other thinks before the meetings begin. Because the recommendations are not binding on President Bunting and the College Council, they--in the end--will probably overrule any proposals that are not in keeping with their own ideas...
Indignation about the CIA, including mutterings about "corruption," contained a lot of real or feigned naivete, as well as some deliberate malice toward U.S. policy. Still, there are legitimate issues at stake. Few deny the U.S. Government's right to carry on secret operations. The question is whether, in a free society, it is right, wise-or necessary-for supposedly independent organizations to receive secret subsidies...
...legal pay: the fees for convictions that Alabama justices of the peace had long pocketed as their only income. That ruling, faithful to a widely ignored 1927 decision of the Supreme Court, may kill the archaic j.p. system all over the South. "If a judge has a financial stake in the outcome," says Johnson, "he's disqualified...
...gold rush. William J. Forbes, who published the Virginia City (Nev.) Daily Trespass, gave up in disgust. "Of 20 men," he said, "19 patronize the saloons and one the newspaper, and I am going with the crowd." He opened a saloon. But when he had built up a sufficient stake, he once again started a newspaper...