Word: staking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merge across dinner tables with a minimum of friction. Sure, it's all a game, concedes Laura Talbert, a veteran hostess and one of McCarthy's leading characters. But the game is played "in the greatest arena of all, where the survival of humanity is at stake rather than, let us say, the competition of business interests. Think what Pittsburgh must be like...
Ethnic Interest. Somalia's interest in Djibouti is primarily ethnic, for the majority Issa tribe in the territory is Somali-speaking. Ethiopia's stake is economic: 60% of its foreign trade moves via Djibouti's deepwater port; a rickety, 60-year-old railroad connects it with Addis Ababa. Both countries deny any annexation designs, but neither trusts the other's disclaimers. Nor do Djibouti's new rulers. Says Ahmed Dini, 45, president of the newly elected National Assembly: "The Somalis and Ethiopians are at swords' points now, but what is to prevent them some...
Family Pact. The struggle pits Hughes' first cousin, Houston Lawyer William Rice Lummis (pronounced Lumm-us), 48, against Chester Davis, 66, the Wall Street in-fighter who in 1973 finally won the twelve-year TWA antitrust suit for Hughes and became a major power within Summa. At stake is what remains of Hughes' fortune, estimated to have been as high as $1.8 billion in the late 1960s (excluding Hughes Aircraft Co.) but now assessed by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith at no more than $168 million. If no will is found, Lummis, who is the court-appointed temporary...
Whoever buys the oil, the companies that discovered it and built the pipeline stand to earn staggering revenues from their investment-$5 billion annually if the U.S. economy continues to recover. The companies with the largest stake in the pipeline would be Sohio, Arco and Exxon. Already, seven of the eight consortium companies have filed proposed shipping charges with the Interstate Commerce Commission. They are stiff, ranging from $6.04 to $6.44 per bbl. just to get the crude from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez...
...efforts of the Clamshell Alliance seem puny. They are not. Faced with the powerful pro-nuke combine of Government and Big Business, Clamshell seems to have opted for visibility in order to persuade others to support its cause. Its methods are commendable for orderliness and courtesy. The issues at stake are more serious than the indeed serious threat to marine life that you cite. The Clamshell protesters are crusaders in the vital cause of saving us and the generations to come from the terracide being risked by reckless and shortsighted officialdom...