The influence of major shareholders sometimes seems obvious, particularly when they hold a stake approaching 50 percent of shares outstanding.
By contrast Kinder Morgan is worth $109 billion, Mr Kinder's personal stake approaches $9 billion and in the past year alone he has received distributions of $376m.
For Oracle, it has also seen its high-stakes approach fall away.
It is betting that the combination of its high stakes approach to market share, its take no prisoners approach to the Shi'ia question within its borders, its bold action in Yemen, and fighting proxy wars in neighboring stakes will be enough to keep the plethora of wolves at its doorstep at bay.
It dials back the No Child Left Behind Act's high-stakes approach to testing in math and reading, prompting renewed hope that the time and resources for the arts -- and other subjects that were often "squeezed out" of the school day -- may find their way back into the classroom.
There was now a wholly different attitude toward Secretariat as the Preakness Stakes approached two weeks later.
The New York Observer then raised the meta stakes, approaching Mr. Matos and his editors for a brief oral history of the making of that oral history.
Fresh horses, phantom horses and horses who will arrive fashionably late pretty much sum up the gamesmanship under way as the 127th running of the Preakness Stakes approaches on Saturday.
Stake's approach to organisational case study views this as a fundamentally interpretive process in which generalisations are made by theoretical, not statistical, abstraction (i.e. a rigorous case study analysis is one in which events and actions are linked via a plausible and richly-theorised account) [ 28].
The strength of this study was that it evaluated a high stakes National Assessment Centre approach, with sufficient numbers to ensure adequate sampling of all the factors.
