Word: staking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MANY CYNICAL Americans viewed the swine flu program as a Presidential election-year ploy. It may have been that, but the politics of the program ran far deeper. The Federal health establishment, even those advisers with no stake in a Republican victory, supported the program enthusiastically...
...words of one feminist critic, he "spends, invests, does with the interest as he pleases. The dowry puts the woman on the auction block." On the other hand, it can also provide a beleaguered wife with some measure of leverage in her marriage, since she gets back the original stake in the event of a divorce...
Preliminary indications show that Fox may have judged the mood correctly. River House masters, with nothing really at stake, favor the plan. And of the Quad House masters, only North House's Hannah and John Hastings have shown significant dissent...
...Many wept in the streets when the end came, and all citizens, whatever their views, felt a sense of loss. The mayor touched the lives of every single person in Chicago and that meant a lot. To those who went along--a large number--it meant they had a stake, however small and easily manipulated, in their city. What is unfortunate is that many mistook that stake and all its varying degrees of convertibility into power for evidence that Chicago actually "worked" as a city, rather than just a means of providing for their selfish patronage interests...
...strength has always been its ability to find oil. The company was started in 1909 by William Knox D'Arcy, an adventurer who somehow had wangled a concession to explore in Iran. The British government bought a 51% stake in BP in 1914 because Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, wanted a secure source of oil for the navy. Known originally as Anglo-Persian, the company was renamed British Petroleum several years after the government of Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized its Iranian concessions...