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And all because, in Krauthammer's words, Clinton "staked the survival of the most successful alliance in history on bright new academic ideas cooked up far from the battlefields on which they now flounder."
That is (or ought to be) the duty of anyone who has staked his or her professional reputation on one particular scientific approach or methodology.
The temporary tax cut, USAT explains, is an about-face for Prime Minister Hashimoto, who had recently staked his political reputation on reducing his country's budget deficit.
Critics dump on the gratuitous violence--especially a rape and murder scene involving a naked woman staked to the ground--in this thriller starring John Travolta, James Woods, and Madeleine Stowe.
She has staked her career on profitability.