Word: stake
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Foreign Policy: Columnist Joseph Alsop wrote fortnight ago that Rockefeller "regards the Eisenhower foreign policy as sadly unimaginative and the Eisenhower defense program as grossly inadequate." Viewing Eisenhower policies as "almost Chamberlain-like," Alsop went on, Rockefeller is undertaking to "stake out a neo-Churchillian position...
...played a behind-scenes role in California Steelmaker Edgar Kaiser's defection from steel's solid front to make a separate settlement (TIME, Nov. 9). Opposed to Mitchell are White House economic counselors led by Presidential Adviser Raymond Saulnier, who insist that the U.S. public has a stake in seeing to it that the settlement terms are non-inflationary.*Largely because of this split, the Administration has failed to explain clearly enough what the strike is about...
...Fortune. The 14 million Overseas Chinese living in the area they call Nanyang, the Southern Ocean, looked desperately for a way out of the rain of repressive laws. Some turned to Red China and some to the Nationalist stronghold on Formosa, but all felt that their existence was at stake. The matter was hotly argued last week in Manila's tiny sari-sari shops by the flickering light of kerosene lamps, in Bangkok's "thieves' market," where peddlers cautiously hawk rare Siamese antiques, in Singapore's Tanjong Rhu, the "millionaires' club," where wealthy Chinese dine...
...Flags. At stake was control of Africa's biggest nation (pop. 35 million), which gets its independence from Britain next October. Taxi drivers shouted slogans at one another through the traffic; staffs of business firms, and even families, split into opposing camps. Two bickering brothers reached a compromise by flying Zik's flag at the front of their house, Awolowo's at the back...
...told the bankers that those "who know the invariable wisdom of balanced budgets, of stable money and of sound debt management must be moved to use every means to convince the people of this country that their standard of living and the freedom of their daily lives are at stake...