Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious drift in the standards of American education" is the issue at stake in his public battle with the Tufts University administration, Woodrow Wilson Sayre said in a telephone interview last night...
Spain's bid for associate membership in the Common Market was at stake, and el Caudillo was willing to relax his autocratic grip a bit in order to convince the Eurocrats of his sincerity. Last week in Brussels, on the eve of the 25th-anniversary celebration of Franco's Civil War victory, Spain's two-year-old application finally got a hearing...
...Through the Courts. The resulting legal battle between C.A.V. and the Banco Nacional, an instrument of the Cuban government, stirred up interest out of all proportion to the $175,251 that was at stake. Rooting for C.A.V. were the stockholders of all the Castro-expropriated companies, once worth hundreds of millions. The U.S. State Department considered the case momentous because it involved a basic principle of U.S. law: "the act of state doctrine" that originated in England nearly 300 years ago. The doctrine was spelled out by the Supreme Court back in 1897: "Every sovereign State is bound to respect...
...abuse of government power wherever it appears. If the large majority of open-minded and idealistic Americans, without whose acquiescence no filibustering minority can win more than a stay of execution, is to make a wise decision in the civil rights controversy, it must understand clearly what is at stake. What we are arguing about is whether we will use the power of the community to secure a fair chance in the competitive system in which we profess to believe for those who are deprived of it through no fault of their own. Until we remove the tyranny...
More than neighborliness was behind the government's withdrawal. Foreign investment in Canadian firms declined from a $600 million peak in 1960 to $130 million last year. Canada's economy has been surging, with the result that Canadians themselves have the wherewithal to buy a larger stake in their own industry. In addition, Gordon's plan to give tax reductions to foreign-owned companies that sell at least 25% of their stock to Canadians has met surprising success. Spurred by this incentive, subsidiaries as diverse as those of Du Pont and Reader's Digest have...