Word: stakes
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...even the best-staged TV-doctor series can convey the emotional intensity, the gruesome tableaux and the technical wizardry of a hospital emergency room. To capture the horror and heroics for this week's cover, we dispatched photographers to seven hospitals in seven cities. Their assignment: to stake out some of the country's busiest emergency rooms and record the minute-by- minute drama on film...
...advisers recommended that Bush not invest his prestige in an uphill battle to uphold his veto. Sununu strongly disagreed. He persuaded Bush to put a full-court press on every Republican Senator, promising to protect the students by Executive Order without offending the prickly Chinese leadership. What was at stake, Sununu stressed, was the President's ability to conduct foreign policy without congressional meddling. The argument worked and the veto stuck...
...usually judge a film's long-term fate by its , performance on its first weekend in the theaters. On Saturday mornings Hollywood's phone lines buzz with the sound of moguls offering congratulations or condolences based on industry polls of Friday-night receipts. With so much money at stake, this summer's calls could be highly emotional. "There are a number of films that can do $100 million or more," says Jeffrey Katzenberg, chairman of Disney Studios. "But you can't look for another Batman; that's a fool's mission. There will be triples and home runs, but probably...
More is at stake than the gambling industry, with revenues of as much as $300 million, which has flourished on the U.S. side of the reservation since bingo parlors were introduced in 1986 as a quick and easy way to fund tribal welfare programs. "It's a question of who is going to have jurisdiction and under what conditions" over every aspect of reservation life, says Ron LaFrance, acting director of the American Indian Program at Cornell University. A bitter power struggle between three competing tribal councils has been exacerbated by disagreements among a maze of U.S. and Canadian government...
Winkler rebounded to nip Dragomirescu, 7-6, inthe third and final set to notch the win and putthe Tigers a match from clinching a stake in theIvy title...