Word: stakes
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...least one other member of the Law School community has an important stake in the case. In July, Simpson hired Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz as a consultant to the defense team to evaluate constitutional issues in the event of an appeal...
JOHNSON: "At stake are the liberty of a nation and the principles and the values of all the American republics...
...subscribers) of the field. Upstart America Online grew at such a rapid clip -- an extraordinary 200% in the past 12 months -- that subscribers complained of busy signals and its stock was whipsawed by takeover rumors (the most recent: that cable-TV mogul John Malone wants to buy a big stake). Even Prodigy, the troubled online service that has reportedly swallowed $1 billion of its co-owners' (IBM and Sears) shrinking capital, seems to have turned the corner and is finally showing a profit...
...Upholding the reliability" of U.S. commitments, to use the President's words, is an especially disingenuous argument. No one can seriously doubt even Clinton's resolve to protect the nation's vital interests wherever they are truly at stake. In Haiti the credibility gap the President seeks to close is largely the result of his own dithering. Indeed, more than anything else, the current crisis can be traced to the President's capitulation to an unarmed rent-a-mob protesting the arrival of a U.S. warship last October. When the Harlan County turned away from Port-au-Prince, the junta...
...also meant to prepare the two groups Clinton must enlist before sending U.S. troops into battle: Congress and the American people. To convince the country that returning Aristide to power is worth spilling American blood, advisers told Clinton he needs to spell out the U.S. vital interests at stake, preferably in a TV speech this week...