Word: stake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muzorewa to regain his domestic popularity, for instance, would be to take credit for a reasonable peace settlement. The African front-line states, whose populations, border areas, and economics have been ravaged by the war, would also welcome peace, but politically they have too much at stake to end the war for a shabby settlement. The present Zimbabwe constitution--in which whites control the courts, military, police and civil service, hold enough guaranteed parliamentary seats to block constitutional changes, and receive an even more disproportionate share of seats in the Cabinet--must be totally overhauled. (A constitutional solution acceptable...
...guerillas of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are located. Some Palestinians owe their allegiance to the state in which they live; others recognize the PLO as their spokesman; the allegiance of the Palestinians of the West Bank--which was part of Jordan between 1948 and 1967--is the stake of a contest between the PLO and Jordan. The PLO itself is a coalition of ideologically disparate movements...
Sullivan is quick to point out that Alper has a personal stake in all of this--a friend of the mayor's sister left his family for the Unification Church. Reportedly, Alper's sister felt bereaved...
Probably not even these cases will ever last as long as that of Joan of Arc. Five centuries after she was burned at the stake, every facet of her person, her trial and the surrounding events are still scrutinized and argued by lawyers, theologians, historians, mystics, psychologists, poets and playwrights. Even medical pathologists have joined in the continual replaying of the trial of the Maid of Orleans. In 1958 Scholar Isobel-Ann Butterfield and her physician husband John theorized that an advanced infection of bovine tuberculosis might have led to the phenomenon of Joan's hearing voices. Critic Albert...
...theft is involved. Reports of criminal misuse of funds are almost nonexistent. What is at stake is the robbing of Peter to pay Paul, all within an academic context. Colleges are valuable, expensive and above all nonprofit institutions. Federal grants given for research have often been regarded as a general fund that can justifiably be used for allied but unauthorized expenses. University administrators, in fact, say that what is needed now, given the economic pinch, is more accounting flexibility rather than less...