Andrew Beal was once known primarily for high stake poker games.
In the end, it is all about national pride and high-stake risks, tortuous and deliberately time-consuming negotiation, fine calculations, deception and bluff.
What Lincoln did was stake the high ground because with this proclamation there would be no compromise to the Union cause until the war was over.
But late-stage investors, who paid high valuations for a stake in the hot start-ups, will lose money if the public market values those firms less than they did.
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In a most Silicon Valley touch, Google started a public policy blog, where its employees tried to stake out the high moral ground.
"It is utterly untrue that the high-end computers at stake in the decontrol decision are available from sources beyond U.S. and COCOM control, " said Gaffney.
In her field and with the high demand and the money at stake in just a slight increase in the size of the viewing audience, those small things matter and can take her out of the game.
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And then I would just point you to what I said before about these are high-pressure jobs with a lot at stake.
With so much money at stake, "It's a high-stakes gamble to go to trial, " Uhlmann said.
Recent figures show there is much at stake when it comes to sustainable transport on the high-seas.
Bond rater Moody's lost 3.8% on Thursday after Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett cut his stake in the firm, which got burned giving high ratings to junky mortgage bonds.
That year rapper Pharrell Williams invested a "high six-figure" amount for a 30% equity stake in the company--enough to hire graphic designers to create slick brochures and a new website with color diagrams on Bionic's manufacturing process.
At first glance, the jobs argument seems a bit stronger for Longbridge, since as many as 50, 000 may be at stake, and unlike Airbus they are already in a high-unemployment area.
Gore and to his current case, a high-stakes divorce with the ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers at stake.
The software titan's most high-profile partnership is with Facebook, in which it owns a small equity stake.
The reason the billionaire oligarchs feel it is a legitimate fear that they could be left high and dry is because it will take many months for them to sell their stake: the sale would require regulatory approval and also the unwinding of the complex network of international companies through which they own their stake in TNK-BP.
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Griffin may be at it again, as Citadel announced it was dumping its remaining 9.6% stake in E-Trade hours after the stock hit a 52-week high.
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To make ends meet and have these communities be of high quality and trust for both the ventures raising funds and the accredited investors taking a stake in them, there are a series of documents that are required to be collected for the initial application process.
The issue at stake here is how both regulators deals with market dominance, a significant issue in the high-tech industry.
After the stock closed at a yearly-high on Wednesday, the billionaire investor announced his intention to sell his entire 27.4 million stake in the company.
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