Word: stakes
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...already filed a defamation suit. Moreover, Clemens is not the only player who has challenged the report. Lesser lights like ex-outfielder David Justice, relief pitchers Mike Stanton and Brendan Donnelly and others have also disputed the report's claims. Sure, since these players have smaller reputations at stake, their denials weren't as loud as Clemens'. But if one player like Clemens deserves a chance to try to clear his name, don't all the players? "I do not think it's fair to call one or two players," says Shays. "If we're going to call in players...
...speech was designed to stake Blair out as a man capable of taking the E.U. to the same place his supporters say he brought Britain: the fabled "third way" between costly welfare states, and unfettered, even savage market forces. In a recently expanded Europe where attitudes in its older members, such as France with its generous social security systems, often clash with newer entrants with far less protection as with Latvia, the promise of Blair finding common ground as he often did in Britain will be inviting to many people. Elsewhere, however, he'll find hostility to his vision...
...Following in Schaller's footsteps, Rabinowitz has focused on protecting cats partially for public relations reasons - it's easier to rally public support behind such beautiful, charismatic animals than, say, a new species of frog. Also, because big cats range far and wide in their habitats, if you can stake out enough land to protect them, you'll also be protecting all the smaller animals that occupy the lower rungs of the food chain. (It's called the "apex protection" strategy.) Tigers will likely always remain endangered in the Hukawng Valley, but turning the area into a well-protected reserve...
...mirroring violence across the country. Few seemed to care whether Kibaki and his tribe would fight back. "If there's civil war, it is the Kikuyus who will lose," says Titus Odiambo, a Luo fish trader. "It's their buildings that will burn. We don't have anything at stake." Some Kikuyu gangs struck back, but tens of thousands simply fled to the central highlands, where they are the majority tribe...
...that the Golden Knights and Harvard are in a three-way tie for first in the ECAC, along with Princeton, even more is at stake, as the Crimson tries to recover its early-season momentum...