Word: staking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both sources of income lead the Faculty to view their assets as the prime source of the center's funding and, therefore, claim a stake in how the money should be spent...
...worked so well that anyone who invested $100 in WorldCom stock when the company went public in 1989 would today have a holding worth more than $3,000--by far the best showing in the telecom industry and one of the biggest advances for any U.S. company. His 1.8% stake in WorldCom is worth some $600 million...
...years. 1995: Pope asks forgiveness for Counter-Reformation stake burnings...
Which, of course, she does, but Catherine doesn't question his motives. She wagers all she has on the purity of Morris's love, while Morris himself begins a protracted, ugly rivalry with the skeptical Dr. Sloper. As Morris tells Catherine, "I stake my pride on proving to your father that he is wrong," failing to realize that his intended declaration of love has become a declaration...
Still, in many ways, Ashong has more at stake in his musical, which he hopes will be his "crowning artistic achievement...