He could not not speak; his curtain was the page, and once he tore that curtain open Williams the artist lived to reveal the constant high-stakes drama that was himself.
They are calculated on the basis that each investor buys into a fund, or a range of funds, at the beginning of the period under study and holds on until the end, rebalancing his or her portfolio along the way so that the stake remains constant.
This makes Östlund's characters seem like prisoners, or lab rats, under observation, and their constant visibility subtly raises the stakes throughout.
They come in handy for weighing down tents -- winds here can be steady and fierce, and the extra weight can mean the difference between a good night's sleep and constant wrestling with ropes and stakes.
But this freedom from plausibility, while one of the things that makes the series so gripping to begin with, can begin to pall; and it has become increasingly clear that the scriptwriters, under constant pressure to keep the stakes high and the action hot, are running out of fresh ideas.
There's going to be constant character turnover, because the stakes on the Island are life-or-death".
With that constant risk of copying at stake, Snap has had to make some drastic moves, like re-design the app to bucket together certain use cases in certain screens and hopefully keep users coming back over and over again.
It is bad enough that many of America's students have been exposed to millions of wasted hours of test prep, "high stakes" anxiety and the constant vilification of their wonderful teachers.
It was a constant reminder of what was at stake.
Teachers' leaders said the figures showed excessive workload, "high-stakes" assessments and the constant changes within education were driving those in the profession to leave.
