Political divisions have rarely been uglier and what better more sacred ground to stake out than claiming to awaken the public to their fulfillment of the American dream, home-ownership.
Going up against entrenched interests is never easy, and Castlight has to perform a delicate dance, collaborating with insurers to pry loose the claims data it needs to serve its self-insured customers, while at the same time disrupting the status quo to stake its ground.
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Obama could have used this sad episode as a teaching moment and to stake the higher ground.
Check it out, think it out, then put your stake in the ground.
But for Seventh Generation, CSR has meant putting a stake in the ground on natural resources, staying firm, and leading change.
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Once Apple set their stake in the ground for a product announcement, one-by-one, the competition came out to beat Apple to the punch.
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.
You want them to see you as a stake in the ground, as the person who creates a safe and honorable space where people can be relied upon.
Balsamiq believes they have learned enough about themselves, their product, their customers and competitive space to put a stake in the ground and tell the world what they know.
"We're really hoping to put a stake in the ground and take this issue, which has been the subject of debate for a long time, off the table altogether, " says Yahoo!'
Fourth, it's still entirely possible that neither Sprint nor Palm know the exact date -- we're guessing the firmware still hasn't gone gold, and until it has, they can't be putting an immutable stake in the ground.
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And whether or not NBC's licensing bet pays off, old media plants a massive victory stake in the ground, pushing aside technology's rightful role of connecting the world in shared moments, impervious to the sharpened sticks hurled by the digerati.
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Anyway, Apple will presumably drive a stake into the wide ground between iPhone and iPad (10-inch) with a competitor to the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire.
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Or it may have been a calculated attempt by FDA to stake out new policy ground in the context of a firm that was unlikely to garner much sympathy.
In a most Silicon Valley touch, Google started a public policy blog, where its employees tried to stake out the high moral ground.
It also helps, greatly in fact, to have non-sales elements to the Facebook page or wherever you have driven your stake in the social media ground.
To take their advice would be to abandon not only the ground that Romney has worked so hard to stake but also the supporters who stood by him when others questioned his sincerity.
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With these stake buys, Pandit is preparing the ground for starting a new bank in India.
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Promoting pro-green stimulus plans is one way of allowing them to stake a claim to the rhetorical middle ground.
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Earlier in 2008, Ambani had attempted to negotiate a merger with MTN but was forced to call off the talks when his older brother Mukesh objected on the ground that he had the right to first refusal on any stake sale.
In addition to property, the conglomerate includes ports management, ground services for private jets, waste management and a 26% stake in mobile operator SmarTone.
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