Word: staking
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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While the parliamentary skirmishing degenerated into a morass of confusion in which nothing seemed certain to pass, the basic issues at stake were sharply etched. In order of diminishing intensity of feeling, they came down to a classic confrontation over free trade, a sweeping reform of federal welfare programs, funding of a supersonic jet transport aircraft, and limitations on the President's power to authorize U.S. military operations in Cambodia. With only a few more scheduled working days, this is how those issues stood...
Carson has shifted from what Colonel David R. Hughes, the division's chief of staff, describes as "an authoritarian to a participatory approach?because then a man feels that he has a stake in what he is doing." A 19-man group of enlisted men meets regularly with Rogers and has had 70% of its suggestions accepted...
...commented?? police officers was ?? ations of some sixteen student ?? tion was at stake. Policemen are more...
...MOST difficult thing to determine in the whole affair is exactly what was at stake, what the precise issue was. Though certain defendants and observers felt that the issue was the destruction of the American court system, the American court system is not destroyed by four minor trials...
What was really at stake in this political game was how four people would spend the next two or three years of their lives. If they spent the time in prison, one side won. If they spent it free and acquitted, the other side...