Word: staked
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Congress could shake up the bureaucracy, says Peters, but it has too much of a stake in the status quo. "The more bureaucrats do wrong to the public," writes Peters, "the more favors Congressmen can do for their constituents as they right the wrongs-or as they appear to try to right them." They may not actually help, but they can always denounce the offending bureaucrat on the floor of Congress and then send a copy of their remarks to their constituents...
Originally, the indigenous tribes had welcomed the Bengali Hindus when they fled across the border from predominantly Muslim Bangladesh in 1971. But they soon clashed. The tribals traditionally farm the land for a few seasons, then move on. The Bengalis stake out an area and work it continuously. Thus with 1.3 million Bengalis in Tripura, there was simply no longer enough land to go around. Moreover, while the Bengalis acquired increasing political and economic power, the tribesmen, outnumbered 2 to 1, seethed with frustration at becoming a minority in their own state...
With such a small part of the total loan package at stake, Chrysler could have bought back the loans from the recalcitrant banks. But with Chrysler's lenders nervous at best over the complex credit deal, it was clear the defection of just one or two banks would jeopardize the entire loan package. Thus the company's tactic was to besiege the holdout bankers with telephone calls from Congressmen and big-city bankers. Chrysler workers also threatened to withdraw all their savings accounts from some of the banks. The tiny Crestwood Metro Bank in St. Louis, which...
...states. Ironically for Kennedy, it turned out to be the best week of his campaign. He won five of the contests, including two of the three most important, in California and New Jersey; Carter carried the third big state, Ohio. In all, Kennedy won 53% of the delegates at stake. Yet even as Carter suffered his worst defeats of the campaign, he still picked up 321 delegates, far more than he needed to sew up the nomination...
Whomever the jury believes, there are certain to be reverberations. Amy has been suspended from racing. New York State racing officials have indicated that, regardless of the verdict, each of the jockeys mentioned at the trial faces disciplinary hearings and may lose his license. At stake is the integrity of racing in the sport's premier state. Amy asserted that he and his friends in the jocks' dressing room discussed fixing races "twice a week" during 1974 and 1975. If this is true, the best of racing will be proved no better than the worst...