Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three months later, very little has come from the criticisms that arose during the Fall book shortage. Members of the Harvard Undergraduate Council have met once with Coop officials, and have promised to draft a letter to professors explaining the students' stake in the Coop's problems...
...second biggest private industrial company, with estimated 1965 sales of $1 billion, and the Compagnie Financière de Suez, one of the Continent's fastest growing investment trusts, with assets of some $200 million, decided to get together. Under a provisional agreement, Suez will assume a 20% stake in Pont-à-Mousson; in exchange, Pont-à-Mousson will get between 10% and 15% of Suez, the exact share yet to be negotiated...
...demented racist and centering his story on the plight of the Jew, Fast ignores history. The Inquisition was concerned with heresy not heredity; it was Catholic Spain's method of safeguarding theological doctrine. Less than one-fourth of Torquemada's 8,800 victims at the stake, in fact, were impenitent Jews...
...emirs and wazirs eager to take the place of an assassinated Premier; the West must have a popular Yoruba and the East a popular Ibo Premier; in the Midwest a balance of power among several tribes must the kept. Each region, each major tribe must be given a sufficient stake in the Federation to make the idea of secession unthinkable...
Gringo Grumbles. Mexico's motives are not altogether selfless. It would like to boost exports and build a stake in the thriving, 12 million-consumer Central American Common Market. This in turn led some Central American businessmen, worried about superior competition from what they refer to as the "Colossus of the North," to grumble about Mexico's "imperialistic" intentions-precisely as generations of Mexican anti-gringos have fretted in the shadow of Mexico's neighbor across the Rio Grande. To soothe their fears, Díaz Ordaz specifically promised no economic or political interference. Said he crisply...