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With the introduction of a higher-stakes tournament with a $1 million prize and an online game in 2009, he projects revenue of $10 million next year.

The Miliband tweak is simply that this would no longer be a vote on the treaty specifics, but a higher-stakes – and more winnable – in/out vote.

Or, a higher-stakes proposition: Can you believe in the possibility of connecting with other people, no matter what their politics, even now?

Rick, a higher-stakes sports bettor based in New England, said he was leery of sending his credit card number to traditional online sports books because he had friends who lost money when their online sports books were suddenly shut down.

But T.C.U.'s rise to the cusp of college football's biggest stage comes at a time when Del Conte and the Horned Frogs are probably going to be faced with a decision of whether to play a higher-stakes game of musical chairs.

The penalty is a slap on the wrist in the context of a higher-stakes struggle between the state agency and Entergy over whether the two Indian Point reactors should continue to operate beyond 2014 and 2016, when their initial 40-year operating licenses are scheduled to expire.

"Be a hero!" In the narrowest terms of sport, Ryan, at that moment, wasn't (he made the third out), but as Mr. Behrens has been telling his team of 13-to 15-year-olds all season, the jerseys across their backs now have them representing a higher-stakes definition of hero to some.

But it's a higher-stakes game than laboratory research.

But space is much more of a higher-stakes game for China than that.

Filming with such young kids, he says, made him "a little bit nervous," because it's "a higher-stakes game obviously they are more vulnerable".

And if you want to meet someone again, you have to coordinate busy schedules, make a one-on-one date and travel (see #2) – a higher-stakes proposition than bumping into someone and grabbing an apropos drink.

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