Word: stakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pecking out and transmitting messages. It works: five minutes after a Time reporter first picked one up, he managed to create and send E-mail--while navigating rush-hour traffic. How good is the technology? Three weeks ago, Microsoft shelled out an estimated $25 million to increase its small stake in Skytel, a pager company that will sell the SkyWriter this fall. Bill Gates, it seems, believes in ghosts...
...presenting what you do to other people," Purin says. "When you're up on stage there's a lot at stake that...
...think it is a good thing that he uses technicalities to skirt the issues which are truly at stake," Gilchrist said, referring to the ROTC bill which Lewis rejected on the grounds that a compromise had been worked out the year before...
...GOOD OLD days, book publishers had a pretty fair idea of what they would and would not print; since their names, often literally, went on the finished products, their reputations were as much at stake as those of their authors. But once publishing transformed itself into a business of battling behemoths, the clubby, gentlemanly code of ethics grew harder to enforce or even, in some minds, to justify. Do publishers still put a stamp of approval on their books, or are they now merely commercial conduits between writers and readers...
...unconscious, or an emblem of the soul. With Callahan, it's not always clear just which of those directions he's pointed in. He hasn't been much inclined to publish long statements of philosophical intent. But he manages all the same to imply that there's more at stake in his pictures than meets...