Word: staking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is also concern that Carter's approach may result in the Kremlin's cracking down even harder on protesters. Further, there is real fear at the State Department that Carter's statements might undercut Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who has a deep personal stake in improved U.S.-Soviet relations. Harried by Carter and vulnerable to his own hardliners, Brezhnev could be forced to take an obdurate stand on the SALT talks to show that he is not knuckling under to Washington...
...mistake in the past of looking upon ourselves as Europeans, whereas in fact we were only of European extraction and were as much of Africa as anybody else. I have tried to make it known that we have every right to consider ourselves as whites with a permanent stake in Africa...
...lunch-pail capitalists will sell out to Capital Cities Communications Inc., the Manhattan-based owner of four small newspapers, 13 broadcast stations and Women's Wear Daily. Employees of the Kansas City company, which publishes the evening Star and the morning Times, gave up their stake so willingly because the papers will soon require very expensive modernization -and because the price was right: $125 million, twice the book value of the firm and probably the highest price ever paid for a one-city newspaper company...
...member panel of freshmen that must decide whether to uphold the boycott made no final decision when it met Thursday, but it did stake out clear boundaries for future action...
...Senate Caucus Room, both sides were poised for battle. At stake was the confirmation of Jimmy Carter's nominee as CIA director: Theodore Sorensen, 48. Ready to bear witness against him were representatives of assorted conservative and right-wing groups, including the Liberty Lobby and the John Birch Society. Prepared to defend him were some of the ornaments of the Eastern liberal Establishment such as Averell Harriman and Clark Clifford...