Word: staking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wanted around the world, the kind of overwhelming role it enjoyed in the aftermath of World War II. As the panel's discussion lengthened, this vexing problem kept coming back to the table. Of course, the U.S. still has enormous strength. Of course, its vital interests are at stake in a threatened part of the world. Still, what precisely should the Administration do to help-and not hurt-U.S. national interests...
...much is at stake for the world to tolerate for long the problem of rising prices from erratic suppliers. As one top oil executive put it in London: "The game is too big to be taken advantage of in this way. The economic penalty of imposing sudden price increases is lethal...
...should prohibit the import of any oil or oil products that sell above the official posted prices. Perhaps this prohibition should be coupled with an international allocation scheme. This is a proposal that will appeal to nobody because it means more Government in business. But what is at stake is the economic welfare of all our countries. When that is at stake, I believe that even though what one suggests should be done looks difficult-if not impossible -one has no right...
Behind the gray stone walls of Palafox Seminary in Puebla, Mexico, 184 bishops of the third Latin American Bishops' Conference (CELAM III) spent 18 days weighing words like poker chips in a high-risk game. At stake was the future of 300 million Roman Catholics, across a continent plagued by poverty and oppression. Would the bishops be swayed by the progressives in their midst and come out in favor of church activism for the coming decades? Or would they take a conservative line and retreat from tactics that threatened confrontation with repressive political regimes? Last week the bishops emerged...
...honor and heritage of Canada and the U.S. were safe. But the Soviets rallied to win the second match, 5-4, and then humiliated the N.H.L. in the rubber game, 6-0. The debacle stirred musings about future showdowns with the Soviets in which national honor would be at stake...