Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 to force concessions in its wage, pension and benefit packages. "This is not the company it once was," says a GM director. "There is going to have to be special oversight by the board for the next three years. Our credibility is at stake in the credit markets...
Lake's firm also represents the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which owns a majority stake in the scandal-plagued Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has accused the holding company of hiding evidence of B.C.C.I.'s fraud from U.S. investigators. In April, according to documents filed with the Justice Department, Lake put aside his campaign work for five days and flew to Abu Dhabi to consult with company officials about "strategy and developments." Says Lake: "We gave them advice. That's not lobbying...
...What's funny is that the British act as though they have just as much at stake in this election as we do," Leffer said. "In a way, they do since the American economy affects so much of the world. I don't think this fact would have hit me so much had I been back in the States...
...profession seems to be tearing itself apart from within, divided by an ideological dichotomy between conservatives and critical legal studies proponents about the function of lawyers. This has spilled out for public debate in a less academic form: At stake is whether lawyers are compelled to be fiery crusaders in the fight for truth, justice and the American Way, or are mere functionaries in a corporate milieu...
...secular high church of contemporary art. She is hawking herself on the open market instead of playing courtesan to the National Endowment for the Arts. If you don't approve of her performance or her product, you don't have to buy it. Your tax dollars aren't at stake...