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But management believes Nomura has no choice but to push ahead with its high stakes gamble.

The high-stakes summit was expected to run into the early hours of Friday morning before resuming a few hours later.

So far, the team has only tested its lie detector on willing volunteers rather than in a real-life, high stakes situation.

Having said all that, by no means every entrepreneur is by nature a high-stakes gambler.

IT IS just as well that high-stakes industrial poker is a game familiar to Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of Fiat Group.

When you stop and think about it, a system that encourages 17-to-18-year-olds to make high-stakes life decisions is insane.

to possess one another, they risk high stakes, even life itself. In the ancient world this happened only, if at all, in adultery.

So, in a high-stakes, nationally televised debate, Obama might be called upon to defend his pastor and church, or abjure his faith.

In the high-stakes world of formula one, every player is often giving and taking pressure at the same time.

When we were involved in high-stakes foreign and domestic problems, I often had a hard time relaxing enough to fully enjoy such things.

By that score, the latest quarterly earnings are a high-stakes endeavor, with investors saying to Corporate America: "Show us the money. "

High-stakes tests are the main criteria for admission to what are considered the most desirable schools.

HIGH-STAKES chess game is being played out in the south Caucasus. It involves America, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Turkey.

If teaching in China taught me anything, it taught me to be very skeptical of high stakes testing.

It's the kind of society that produces high-stakes prizes and literary controversy.

Given these high stakes, it is no surprise that selecting the dozen jurors was a painstaking process.

It was a high stakes game of chicken and somebody was bound to blink.

I've become much less reluctant to apply an agile process on an important, high-stakes project if the project and process match well.

Behind all the civilities the Supreme Court is indeed engaged in a high-stakes war between its conservative majority and liberal minority.

This gets you used to the pressure, so the high-stakes situation is not something you fear.

He played high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, jetted away on a whim to London, Florida and Hawaii, and bought all the latest gadgets going.

So Basra will continue to be a high-stakes front in the intra-Shi'a fight for control of southern Iraq.

So the company got involved in a high-stakes game of chicken.

The intervention from Obama comes on the eve of a high stakes vote in Congress on a climate change bill.

In the harsh environment and changing topology of a mine, reliable communication is a high-stakes issue.

Yingluck Shinawatra emerged victorious in one of the most high-stakes elections in Thailand's recent history.

A high stakes poker game. A drug lord. A million dollars. A set of ruthless killers who want it all.

These two Americans were about to embark on high profile, high stakes, big money quests.

Mr Kim's high-stakes poker puts Lee Myung-bak, the conservative president of South Korea, in a terrible position.

Schools should be held to high standards, but some argue high stakes testing has forced teachers to teach to the test.

It is hard to set up experiments that have really high stakes, and it is even harder to set up experiments that test complex questions.

As part of Virginia's high-stakes testing program, schools that don't boost their scores by the year 2007 could lose state funding.

The current emphasis on more charter schools, high-stakes testing, and privatization is simply not supported by research.

But in point of fact, ALEC represents corporate interests, and it has an impressive stake in a high-stakes game.

It's high stakes for the Beijing team in tonight's game , if they lose it'll be the end of their season.

Served in paper-thin slices by expert chefs, fugu combines luxury with a high-stakes gamble.

The rising economic powers have financial surpluses, economic growth, and high stakes in global stability.

topics: attribution theory, learning with technology and high stakes assessment.

The debt ceiling vote will be a high-stakes political showdown with national and international implications.

In this case, it was a high-stakes bet between two office-mates, neither of whom cared to back down.

Bill Richardson, a former US ambassador, described the sentencing as "a high-stakes poker game" .

UNESCO calls this game of high-stakes, human Jenga an "integral part" of Catalonian identity.

For China's leaders, tackling inflation without slowing growth too fast is a tricky task, with high stakes.

Preparation for increasingly high-stakes tests has reduced time for social studies and science.

They were playing cards for high stakes(= a lot of money).

But it will also be a high stakes gamble for West Ham.

Six weeks ago, I warned that President Obama's much maligned high-speed-rail program was becoming a " high-stakes gamble. "

This pulse - pounding thriller plays a high- stakes game of suspense, intrigue and explosive action.

The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High-Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers.

The moves are also setting up a 'high-stakes poker game' with retailers.

After all, the people in this high-stakes, high-profile business should be as interesting as the products they build.

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He plays Bacon, a lad who joins up with his 3 partners in a high stakes poker game and ends up owing the mob $500 thousand Pounds.

When you gamble, it is likely to be for high stakes.

Despite the high stakes, the action from Washington has been mostly - finger pointing.

Democrats in Congress have called on Obama to make a personal appeal for the bill which is on a high stakes course this week.

A financing process is a high stakes game upon which the future of your business ultimately depends.

The high stakes begin to explain why McLaren's battle with Ferrari has become particularly pointed.

He left the gambling game when they played for high stakes.

They were playing cards for high stakes.

The high-stakes drama also is making once-calm investors jittery.

And they never, and I mean never, come without high stakes.

The gaokao is China's college-entrance exam, the world's largest high-stakes test.

snuck us into our first club. i'm in this weekly game high stakes, big mey.

Behind the civility, however, there are high stakes.

Whatever his fate, his high-stakes world of corporate power is over.

In any event, the Kenyan assault on the Shabab is a high-stakes gamble.

We got it. Let's play for real. High stakes. Big bucks!

He plays at cards for high stakes.

It is a high stakes, No Child Left Behind dream.

It's the real deal--, high stakes, big money.

It's high stakes for the Beijing team in tonight's game. If they win, they can make it to the finals.

The high-stakes fight for your friends

Many high stakes players make huge bets on all types of different and in my opinion dumb things;