Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...players of both teams take to the field today, the Ivy League title remains at stake...
...main issue at stake is money. Harvard receives about 17 percent of its funding from the federal government, Corlette said...
Though their safety is not threatened, something just as precious is at stake: their jobs. The civil servant ranks have swollen from 27,000 during the days of the Duvalier dictatorship to 55,000 under the junta. With so many to do so little, government work days are often filled with cups of coffee and idle chatter. Yet their salaries gobble up 80% of the national treasury. To comply with the demands of the International Monetary Fund, Aristide must pare those ranks to 34,000. Whether these bureaucrats will back Aristide's efforts or try to gridlock his attempts...
This past weekend's UMass Amherst Invitational didn't appear to be an important meet for the Harvard men's water polo team. No league foes were playing. No area or division champi-on ships were at stake. And no fancy trophy were given out; it was just a last-second tune-up for the Ivy tournament this weekend...
...food-policy task force that recommended the start-up of a new federal agency responsible for food safety alone. Once Clinton was in office, however, the independent agency was never formally proposed. "And it likely never will be. There's just too much money at stake," says a senior Administration official...