Word: stakes
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...American Jews, the suppression of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union, and the decision by Israel to bypass Yiddish and give Hebrew the status of a national language. Lansky, who in 1979 was a graduate student in Yiddish literature at McGill University in Montreal, realized that more was at stake than the survival of the language as a spoken tongue. A native English speaker who was raised in New Bedford, Mass., and did not learn Yiddish until he studied Jewish history in college, Lansky clung to the language with a convert's passion -- in part, he says, because it represented...
...recognize those of other nations and organized numerous expeditions, including the largest in Antarctic history. Mounted in 1946 and called Operation Highjump, it was a naval exercise involving 13 ships, 50 helicopters and nearly 5,000 service members. Its unstated purpose: to make sure the U.S. could legitimately stake its own claim should it ever want...
...What it would take is a renewal of the feminist movement, this time fully involving men whose interests are every bit as much at stake," she says. "I think this could be done. The last movement made enormous changes in people's lives...[and] I think the time is ripe. I think corporations are on the verge of making these reforms...
Hochschild argues that companies must begin to provide alternatives to 60-hour weeks for fast-track employees, and must provide paternity and maternity leave and child care facilities. "In an age of divorce," she writes, "marriage itself can be at stake...
...Since he was tapped for the post last September, the onetime math teacher has commuted six times from Miami, where he served for two years as Dade County school superintendent. His mission: to confer with civic and union leaders, politicians, teachers, parents, the press and anyone else with a stake in the nation's largest (940,000 students), and perhaps most troubled, public school system. Says Fernandez: "I had to convince the city that I am serious about restructuring...