Word: stakes
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...total of 208 delegates are at stake in today's contests, which include the Yankee Primary, primaries in Colorado, Georgia and Maryland and party caucuses in Washington and Minnesota...
...diplomatic bafflegab reflects how hard the U.S. is trying to boost reformist politicians in Russia without specifically endorsing them. On one hand, the Administration is convinced that the U.S. has a big stake in who wins the election. On the other, it is aware that it is unseemly to tell the citizens of a great power how to conduct their own affairs; moreover, doing so could lead to a backlash against the very candidates the U.S. favors. That double bind has tightened considerably in recent weeks as newly declared candidate for re-election Yeltsin performs dismally in the polls...
...There's a lot money and a lot of issues at stake here," Campus Life Committee co-chair Tally Zingher '99 said at the council meeting on Sunday...
...short order was using QVC to launch the exhaustively chronicled bidding war for Paramount that he lost to Viacom's Sumner Redstone. By the summer of 1994, Diller was describing a projected takeover of CBS as his "destiny." But Comcast, a cable company that owned a 15.5% stake in QVC, squelched the deal and then tendered its own offer to buy out Diller's share of the channel. Bitterly disappointed but $100 million richer, Diller came to his present pass, the tragedy of a man still forced to fly around the country in a Gulfstream II when all the other...
TUSCON, ARIZONA: An increasingly confident Pat Buchanan continued his push for a win in Tuesday's Arizona primary. At stake for Buchanan is not only the 39 delegates in the state's winner-take-all event but also vitally needed momentum. "I'm beginning to think I'm going all the way," he said Monday. "A victory in Arizona I think would give us such propulsion it would be very, very difficult to stop us from winning the nomination." On the eve of the vote, most polls show Buchanan locked in a tight race with Bob Dole and Steve Forbes...