Word: staking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...importance of student opinion depends on the issue, Bok said yesterday, adding "students are only one of a number of constituencies" concerned with Harvard's investment policies. Alumni and faculty, for example, have more stake in the management of the University's endowment, Bok said...
...negotiated the treaty with Henry Kissinger, denounced the reservation as "immoral because the strong once again are trying to wield excessive power over the weak." Said a U.S. official in Panama: "Idi Amin couldn't live with this reservation and survive." Aware that his leadership could be at stake, Torrijos complained: "Listening to DeConcini, I ask myself the question: Have we by any chance lost a war? The U.S. didn't demand as much from Japan...
Such unaccustomed and boisterous scenes have become nightly affairs throughout sprawling, overpopulated Manila, as the Philippines' first election campaign in almost six years draws to a climax. At stake in this week's vote are 200 seats in the new interim National Assembly, the parliamentary body that Marcos designed as an improvement over the martial law that he imposed in 1972. It is a step, he claims, toward "normalcy." With anti-Marcos candidates actively campaigning not only in Manila but also far to the south in Cebu and Davao, the election, reported TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein from...
...night," admitted Fukuda after the disturbance. Irritated by the continuing demonstrations that have kept the completed airport idle since 1973-at a cost of $100,000 a day in maintenance and interest payments on construction loans -the Prime Minister had flatly declared that "Japan's prestige is at stake" and insisted that Narita would open for business in April. Now it could take months to repair the damage...
...second stake was the role of the Communist Party (C.P.). It had been in a political ghetto since 1947. In order to come out of it, its strategy, for many years, has been the formation of a Popular Front with the Socialists and the small Left Radicals. The Common Program of 1972 marked the first success of this strategy. But it was signed, not by the old and decrepit Socialist Party of the Fourth Republic, but by a vigorous new Socialist Party taken over by a cunning politician, Francois Mitterrand...