Word: staking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power to tax is the power to destroy," said Forbes. "The current tax system is legalized corruption. If you have the power in Washington D.C. you can get the tax break you want. Take this system and scrap it, kill it, and put a stake through its heart. Bury it and hope it never rises again...
...weeks after Perry used the V word, he seemed to have changed his mind. In a speech in Philadelphia he labeled Bosnia a place "where our vital interests are not threatened, but we do have an important stake in the outcome." Asked to explain this contradiction last week, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said Bosnia was important, though not vital, but the maintenance of U.S. leadership in NATO was at stake in the peacekeeping mission. "We're protecting NATO," Bacon said. "That's vital...
...that the world might have a right to take action against a government that was committing atrocities or genocide against its own people. But experiments in collective security so far have simply proved the old rule: the U.S. will act when it sees that its vital interests are at stake--as in the gulf--but feels no compulsion to send in the Marines without a very good reason. The public demanded a pullout from Somalia but said nothing about abandoning overflights in Iraq when two U.S. helicopters were mistakenly shot down in April 1994 and 15 Americans were killed...
...Americans rejected intervention in Somalia because their vital interests were not at stake, will they accept intervention in Bosnia? One way to persuade them to go along with the deployment, of course, is to argue that America's vital interests are at stake in Bosnia. The Administration has tried that approach, with limited success. Clinton has another alternative, which is to acknowledge that the fate of Bosnia is not crucial to the national security of the U.S., but add that we still have an interest in peace and stability there, and that our interest merits the loss of some troops...
Others had even more at stake. Bahcall's friend and colleague Lyman Spitzer, an astrophysicist at nearby Princeton University, first began thinking about space telescopes nearly half a century ago. In 1945, just after World War II, a friend approached the young Spitzer asking for help. The Air Force had commissioned a study to look into how Earth-orbiting satellites--still a purely theoretical concept at that point--might be scientifically useful. Would Spitzer be interested in giving an astronomer's perspective? He instantly saw the potential of turning the satellites' gaze away from Earth toward deep space. "I wrote...