Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They underestimate the voter who also happens to be Black. And its also looping them into one corner, as if they are a monolith, with all of the same interests at stake...
More than 200 subpoenas. As many as 100 defense contracts subject to cancellation. Tens of billions of dollars at stake. All last week, the revelations coming out of the FBI and Naval Investigative Service probe code- named Operation Ill Wind continued to mushroom into the biggest and most important Pentagon scandal ever...
Icahn's next move? "I haven't made up my mind yet," he insists. Icahn may have trouble raising the money to boost his $12.5 billion offer. He could hold his 14.8% stake and collect more than $100 million a year in dividends. Or he could sell and earn a profit of more than $500 million...
Some cities have added oral exams and simulation exercises. In Corpus Christi, Texas, contenders for the job of police chief had to face interrogation by real reporters at a mock news conference. For many of those cramming for such challenges, major life choices are at stake. Jeanette Dice, 26, and her husband Brian, 31, both took the New York sergeant's exam last week. If she passes, says Dice, "I could take off for a year, have a baby, then go back to work and have enough money to hire a sitter." Otherwise? "I might look somewhere else...
...Madrid Hurtado received 71%. P.A.N., which collected 16% in 1982, is expected to increase its share to more than 20%. Cardenas' leftist coalition is also expected to top 20%, in contrast to the 5% garnered six years ago. "It is not just the presidency that is at stake, but the electoral system itself," observes Juan Molinar Horcasitas, a political scientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico...