Word: staking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back home at Bright Hockey Center, more than mere bragging rights will be at stake as the Harvard men's hockey team takes on traditional rivals Yale and Princeton this weekend...
...Proportional voting encourages increased voter turnout because people have more at stake in the outcome," McKinney said in an interview with The Crimson. "It improves the opportunity of women and minorities, and it does it in a way that does not inflame Southern racial animosity as we've experienced in the past...
...devastating given the resources that Dole, like his opponents Gramm and Lamar Alexander, has been pouring into the Sunshine State in advance of the coming straw poll. Of all promiscuous primary rituals, these polls can do the most to torture front runners: because no real convention delegates are at stake, they are mainly useful for candidates to test the local party organizations. The straw polls only make news when the front runner stumbles--which can include winning by a smaller margin than expected...
...anybody from angling for a piece of the Internet action before now. "I have never seen so much money invested by so many people with so little information," says O'Reilly vice president Dick Peck. The new studies should accelerate the rush of media companies and other businesses to stake claims on the Internet, particularly on the upscale multimedia neighborhoods of the World Wide...
...accommodate the U.S.'s Michael Johnson, world champion in both the 200 and 400 meters? If not, then Johnson would be faced with the impossible task of running in three races on Monday, July 29, and then, two days later, in the 400 final and the 200 semifinal. At stake for the 28-year-old Texan is the chance to do what no athlete has ever done: win the Olympic...