Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Verbal Spanking. Judge Saypol, who last year upheld the constitutionality of the Condon-Wadlin Act, solemnly warned the authority not to follow "any course which would increase the compensation of the strikers in violation of the law." In Saypol's opinion, the issue at stake is nothing less than the very preservation of the rule of law. If laws that are disliked can be violated with impunity, then anarchy prevails and "liberties become useless," said the judge...
...Indians, who are winless in their last nine outings, will be going all out to pull an upset for the Winter Carnival crowd that will fill every inch of small Davis Rink. But the Crimson has too much at stake and has been working too hard to let this one slip away as happened a week ago at Princeton...
...much ado about little. The of fice at stake was Oxford's chair of poetry, which, as one commentator observed, offers "no power, little work and less money." Robert Graves, the retiring incumbent, picked up the annual $980 the professorship provides by delivering three lectures within eight weeks last year. Reason: for tax purposes, Graves is registered as a company in Liechtenstein and can only spend three months a year in Britain. Neither of this year's candidates-American Robert Lowell and Briton Edmund Blunden-bothered to campaign for the seat...
...Push from Monopsony. By then, Lockheed had decided to retreat, at least temporarily, from the commercial-plane market and stake its future on defense and space work. The move was well timed. The company was already deeply involved with the Navy's Polaris missile, which has accounted for more than $2 billion-a fifth-of the company's revenue over the past decade. Polaris' successor, the Poseidon, will probably bring Lockheed and its subcontractors another $2 billion...
...individual reputations are at stake as well as the reputation of the City," one man commented...