Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballots were counted last week, the fears proved justified. With 133 seats at stake, the pro-Peking Communists captured 58 to the Congress Party's 36. A dissident group called the Kerala Congress Party came third with 25, while the pro-Moscow Communists were badly beaten, taking only three of the 78 seats they contested...
...look for the man who might be able to form a new Cabinet. Forming Marijnen's own coalition Cabinet in 1963 took 70 days of agonized negotiation in jealously pluralistic little Holland, and the Dutch, who are used to long periods of nongovernment when a principle is at stake, were settling down before their TV screens at week's end for a long and quiet crisis...
Belaúnde intends to bridge the gulfs not so much by taking from the rich but by giving the peasant masses a stake in their country through massive social reforms and self-help development programs. He offers more food, better jobs, new roads, schools, hospitals, industries. He reminds the Indians of the Inca civilization that once flourished in Peru, talks of "a new renaissance," and challenges them to enlist in what he calls "the conquest of Peru by Peruvians...
...Recalling all the endless fuss the press made over Ike's illnesses, Hagerty asked whether it was worthwhile, when President Johnson caught the flu, to "flood the air with special programs and breathless bulletins that couldn't help but give the impression that his life was at stake, when actually it wasn't any more than many of us had who contracted the same...
About two-thirds of the major U.S. corporations now stake some of their recruits to advanced degrees. Bell Labs, RCA and other companies offer a combination work-study program. The recruit puts in two days a week at the company, studies three days at a nearby university, and collects $6,000 to $10,000 a year. For just taking a temporary job at Hughes Aircraft last summer, Engineering Student Fred Luconi was staked by the company to a fifth year at M.I.T.-with no strings attached...