Word: stakes
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...Medicine Is Changing and What It Means to You, published in May in both hardcover and paperback by Little, Brown. She spent six months crisscrossing the country -- from Walnut Creek, California, to Leesburg, Virginia -- interviewing patients, nurses, insurance executives, Senators -- just about anyone with a voice or a stake in the decisions that Washington soon hopes to make. She talked to AIDS patients at San Francisco General and stood at the elbow of Dr. Wayne Isom as he performed open-heart surgery at New York Hospital...
...emotions defy comparison to any American sporting event. The national pride of the competing sides is at stake. Coaches and players who lose key matches frequently retire just hours afterwards. Sadly, people are killed for their mistakes on the field. And those who succeed become national heroes forever with a flick of an ankle...
...with long patrician roots, like Stephen van Rensselaer III, America's biggest landlord, and others more recently arrived, like the grocery millionaire Luman Reed. Old money wanted to show that taste was not a monopoly of Europeans. New money hoped to prove that it too had refinement and a stake in forming the national image...
They objected to the 300-ft. prohibitions and other clauses. But they allowed much of the smaller zone, which Rehnquist wrote "burdens no more speech than necessary to accomplish the governmental interest at stake." This drew a blistering dissent from Justice Antonin Scalia, who accused his colleagues of creating a standard of tolerance for injunctions against all kinds of speech -- to serve a fondness for abortion rights, which, he thundered, now "claims its latest, greatest and most surprising victim: the First Amendment...
...Hassan Abedi, the B.C.C.I. founder; Mohamed Saleh Naqvi, the empire's former chief executive; and Ziauddin Ali Akbar, the bank's former treasurer. The court also ordered the group of 12 to pay $9.13 billion in restitution to Abu Dhabi's government and ruling family, which held a 77.4% stake in B.C.C.I...