Word: stakes
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...looking for a good working definition of "rubbish," you might have just stumbled upon it. What is at stake for the Council is not a deep-seated concern for the physical welfare of students. If that were the case, the Peace Corps, which sends graduates to the heart of the Third World, or Teach for America, which brings students into inner city ghettos, would incur similar faculty scrutiny...
...with the futility of his assignment, Belgian Lieut. General Francis Briquemont resigned as commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia. French General Jean Cot, chief of ( the 30,000 blue helmets in the former Yugoslavia, spoke out about his troops' "humiliation" and compared them to "goats tied to a stake...
Jones, who founded Highlands in 1959, was reportedly trying to sell it for $30 million before he donated a portion of it to Harvard, according to Aspen Magazine. It is unclear how large Harvard's stake in the resort...
...team's manager, former major league knuckleballer Phil Niekro who won 300 games in the bigs, has a proper sense of just what's at stake. He told the Sentinel: "I think it's time that everyone saw what females could do if given the chance to compete in professional baseball at the minor league or major league level...
What is at stake in Professor Stager's determination to throttle the Semitic Museum is nothing less than the definition of a field. God bless the Philistines interred at Ashkelon, and God bless those who have exhumed their remains. But Semitic scholarship is no longer riveted simply on monuments and shards. Semitic cultures and civilizations survive and flourish in our time. President Eliot and Jacob Schiff understood that this would be so, and the men and women who reopened the Semitic Museum in 1982 understood this, too. Over the last decade the Museum has exemplified the extension of the field...