Word: staking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...search for fertility is a gamble: 20% of science-enhanced births produce multiples; multiples have 12 times as great a chance of dying in infancy; and multiples who survive run a greater risk of serious health problems. Adults may be playing the odds, but children are at stake. Why spend money on fertility treatments when there are so many babies who need mothers and fathers? Giving birth to septuplets is an embarrassment. LOU BANK West Linn...
...angels or devils, depending on the kind of nurturing they receive from others. They can grow into responsible and contributing members of society, or they can become its dependents, predators and outcasts. And because they are "Man's" children, they are everybody's children. The whole society has a stake in their destiny and a duty to help them grow up strong and confident...
...already has a bad reputation as a browbeating, capitalistic, violent society capable of using any means necessary to maintain economic power. In writing about the possibility of killing Saddam, J.F.O. McAllister says, "It's not smart for the U.S., which has a huge stake in world order, to be seen as resorting to a little terror of its own" [VIEWPOINT, Nov. 24]. But that is a lame excuse. The only "unintended consequences" of assassinating Saddam would probably be higher morale all around and a newfound respect for the U.S. CAROL BANKS WEBER Honolulu
...other council members, also supporting the bill, argued that something else was at stake--the way the Harvard degree would look hanging on their office walls...
...Iraqis seem determined to keep talking about buildings and compounds associated with Saddam. That makes it easier for them to stake their claims to sovereignty and security. With great flourishes last week, Baghdad said it was inviting diplomatic representatives from the 20 countries taking part in the Special Commission and five from each of the 15 members of the Security Council. They could visit the palaces and stay "a week, a month, to see the facts," said the Iraqi News Agency. Of course, sleight of hand followed. Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf quickly barred any of the U.N. inspectors...