Word: stakes
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NAFTA, which the House will consider today, would remove trade barriers between the United States, Canada and Mexico. Because the U.S. already has eliminated barriers with Canada, free trade with Mexico is the central issue at stake...
...center opened amidst skepticism by some students and neighbors who feared vandalism might quickly tarnish the new edifice. But Greenidge says he has been successful in convincing the young people that they have a real stake in the center's success...
...Laboratory methods and statistical analysiswill continue to improve. That notwithstanding, nodata base will ever be perfect," Bieber says. "Itwould be regrettable not to use the technologyavailable when there is so much at stake both forthe falsely accused and victims, as well as inother civil cases...
...countries. The recent trend toward isolationism stems from what Americans perceive to be the Clinton Administration's habit of waffling and its mishandling of the apparently intractable situations in Bosnia, Somalia, and Haiti. We shouldn't be sending our boys in harm's way unless our interests are at stake, the majority of the public screams in poll after poll...
This raises two questions. First, if our national interest is not at stake in a conflict, under what circumstances should we intervene? Second, if national interest is the criterion for U.S. troop deployment, what defines that interest...