Word: staking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...since most professors have no financial stake in that transaction, there is no personal incentive to keep the cost of books for the course...
Animal-rights activists talk as if hunting were a form of dope: an addiction that profits only the pushers. There's big money at stake, observes Wayne Pacelle, the senior vice president of the Humane Society. "If you hook a kid at 12, and he hunts till 60, how many guns and rounds of ammo have you sold?" And there's no doubt the gun manufacturers are concerned. They send books and videos into school classrooms to introduce kids to hunting and gun safety. And they encourage state wildlife officials to promote youth hunts, like the ones that kicked...
WASHINGTON: It's alive! The government's antitrust case against Microsoft lumbers on Wednesday, despite the stake driven into its heart by the $4.2 billion deal between Netscape, America Online and Sun Microsystems. Redmond's legal team tried its best to kill the beast Tuesday, arguing that the formation of what was effectively a two-party system in the software industry made government regulation irrelevant. But the beast refused to die. "If I'm counting it right, [that's] the sixth time during the trial that Microsoft has pronounced the government's case dead," said chief Justice Department attorney David...
...limb and expand the basic definition of feminism to which everyone at the panel agreed. Yes, feminism is the demand that women be treated as equal to men. But true feminism is ultimately the humanistic goal that everyone be treated equally in society. We all have a profound stake in the realization of that goal...
...need to make volunteers feel like they havea stake in this organization," she said...