If proven, they were denied a Christian burial - and instead carried to a crossroads in the dead of night and dumped in a pit, a wooden stake hammered through the body pinning it in place.

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Team owners would take an equity stake in the sanctioning body, share more of the national broadcast and sponsorship revenue and could borrow, as football and baseball team owners do, against that stake to invest in the drivers and technology that can make their teams better and the sport more exciting.

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But in the new century, the company--privatized in 1979 and now with a state-owned body holding only an 8% stake--is moving to globalize.

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'You have to assign this to an independent body that doesn't have a stake in the results, ' Mr. Cizek added, rather than the state department of education.

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Institutions of higher education have a huge stake in the quality and type of students they attract, as the composition of their student body is critical to their development and success.

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