Word: stakes
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CAPTION: WHAT'S AT STAKE...
...making that pronouncement, Timothy Ryan, director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, ruled that if Bush again serves as director of a financial institution, he must seek legal advice on his responsibilities, disclose potential conflicts of interest and abstain from voting on matters in which he has a personal stake...
Hungary is well ahead of the East European pack. The government aims to sell about 2,400 enterprises roughly estimated to be worth $37 billion. These include 20 large companies in businesses ranging from pharmaceuticals to tourism. Lajos Csepi, who runs the privatization program, predicts that the state's stake in the economy will come down from 86% early last year to 15% in the next two or three years...
...when they filed 146 applications for water rights with the state engineer. Nevada's share of federally allotted water from the Colorado River cannot sustain growth in the booming oasis, which attracts 5,000 newcomers a month. Thirsty California, they argue, was positioned to jump in and stake a claim to the unused water. "It was our only Nevada source," says Pat Mulroy, general manager of the water district...
...restructuring, many companies remain desperate to slash payrolls further and get more bang for their labor bucks. "People are beginning to understand that the world is moving ahead at a fast clip and that global competition is so fierce that the future of American manufacturing industries is at stake," says Lawrence Bankowski, the Ohio-based president of the American Flint Glass Workers Union, which has lost nearly half its 36,000 members during the past 15 years. Concurs Mike Rohret, a human-resources manager at a Fisher Controls plant in Iowa that is testing a variable-pay plan...