Word: staking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media kingpins are as fickle as a hemline length. For most of this year, Turner angled desperately to buy a TV network, first nbc in January and cbs until only a few weeks ago. Levin, for his part, had been talking of unloading the company's long-held 19% stake in tbs in order to pay down debt. The game changed when Disney and Cap Cities eloped, raising the ardor and insecurity of moguls everywhere...
...Heritage Foundation in Washington. Los Angeles bureau chief Jordan Bonfante says it's the opening gambit in the California governor's plan to "portray himself as taking action as governor on these very issues that Dole is just talking about and compromising on in the Senate. Wilson wants to stake out the position of the action taker, rather than someone who just sits in Washington and can't get anything accomplished...
...grants for the states, as many are proposing for other federal programs, including Medicaid, the health-care system for the poor. Apparently, the vaunted superiority of state governments--their magical ability to find solutions that elude Washington--is not to be trusted when a popular federal program is at stake...
...event--not by the consumer-patient. Fourth, buying health care is not like buying a cantaloupe: it is hard for any lay person to know which purchases make sense and at what cost. Fifth, even intelligent, well-informed people will never be tough shoppers when their health is at stake. Who is going to bargain with a brain surgeon...
...made for preserving the endowments, Hughes' shallow, sneering polemic does it little justice. Indeed, the persistently ad hominem character of his essay only fortifies the impression of an intellectual culture too coarsened to be much worth supporting. Much more than the future of two federal agencies is at stake. STEPHEN H. BALCH, President National Association of Scholars Princeton, New Jersey...