Word: staking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tottering Rheinstahl Steel Company, and by designing and executing a major reorganization, made it so profitable that it was bought by the German conglomerate August Thyssen-Hütte. He was enticed to Volkswagen by the challenge. Recalls Schmücker: "It was more than just Volkswagen at stake. I felt that if this company were to fail, in a sense our entire system would...
Some Alaskans believe the Department of the Interior is land-happy. "We can't turn everything into a park when the survival of the country is at stake," says Hunting Guide Terry Brady of Anchorage. Others resent what they see as outside interference in Alaskan affairs. "We're being made the scapegoat by a lot of people who draw lines on maps," Alaska's Senator Ted Stevens complained. "The people in the Brooklyn tenements and Florida condominiums look about them and see the devastation that development has caused in their area and they're determined...
...Crimson closed the regular season with a 10-2 record on the strength of this win over two tough opponents. The Greater Boston Championships will be at stake on Tuesday, and the NCAA New England Division I finals on Thursday and Friday...
...first public speech since leaving office, Henry Kissinger discreetly took the same view. He declared at Georgetown University: "Negotiations must proceed in a calm, nonconfrontational way, without self-imposed deadlines or rhetorical battles that publicly stake the prestige of both sides." Later, at a party, he bluntly if good-naturedly told a member of the Carter Administration: "Your position is pretty good. Now why don't you just shut up for a while?" By late last week there was ample evidence that the President planned to do just that...
...almost a full half, it looked like the game would go down to the wire. Predun garnered a pair of goals and added an assist to stake Harvard to an early 3-0 bulge...