Proponents of decentralization have long said more parents should be elected to boards because they have the greatest personal stakes in the schools.

Most of the money comes from trial lawyers and business interests, precisely those groups that have the greatest economic stake in how judges rule.

He is one of about 1,700 workers with the greatest stake in Mr. Bush's future.

If Wilson, who of all his countrymen had the greatest stake in neutrality, was alienated by German actions, how much more so the average man.

The investment bank with the greatest stake in Brazil is Credit Suisse First Boston.

Disenchantment over the failures of the last 10 years runs particularly deep among black and Hispanic families, who feel they had the greatest stake in the integration effort.

The change, he said, "gives people with the greatest stake in the schools a bigger say in how they're run."

The intended catch is the intelligence service of the country that will kill him - the country that has the greatest stake in the satellite software.

Buyers who came into the building expecting to stay for the long term naturally have the greatest stake in its future.

She had bargained for seduction twice, increasing the stakes-and had re- served the greatest stake for the final try.