Word: staked
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...Rock - is built atop the ruins of Judaism's holiest temple. "The Palestinian Authority will do everything in its power to make the trip appear to confirm its claim on East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, while the Israelis will do everything to prevent that and to stake their own claims," says Beyer. "So the papal visit is likely to see a lot of political jostling...
...Most would call Jimmy crazy, perceiving day trading as a small step above gambling. It's high risk, high stake and equally addictive. People who try it expect to make their retirement savings from a month of day trading. Ninety percent lose everything. But, Liu is a calm, rational person. The fact that he's back at Harvard is testament to the fact that he's amongst the top 10 percent who succeeded. From 1997 to now he has profited around 250 percent. At his high, he had a 300-400 percent gross profit. That's after he paid...
...There is a whole world of stock trading at Harvard: board meetings in JCRs, annual reports e-mailed to stock holders, stock graphs monitored closely on Yahoo and cowboys like Liu and Sinhababu playing a high-stake, high-return game on the frontier of the Internet...
...have to decide how much risk this Army is worth based in part on the feelings of wives and girlfriends who never thought it was worth risking anything for in the first place. This, again, makes the odds extremely cloudy - more of my life than my health is at stake here - and the question of Duty even more so. The Army Values we are presented with - yes, it's even come to that - unhelpfully define duty as "Fulfill Your Obligations." But obligations to what? Duty to whom...
...human person. Legally, however, HRL believes that an agreement on personhood is not even necessary. It believes if there is any doubt about whether or not the fetus is a human person, then abortion should not be legal, because one cannot risk being wrong when human lives are at stake. SFC, on the other hand, states that a woman should never be forced into a pregnancy against her will, or be made to seek dangerous back-alley abortions. It relies on the important legal concepts of privacy, equal protection and consent to place abortion in the realm of every woman...