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• n  someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner

• China is fast becoming a major influence in the world, prompting the question of whether China will be a "responsible stakeholder" in the international system.
• They're not a core stakeholder the way customers or team members are, but they're also a stakeholder in the sense that you're allies in order to improve each other.
• The stakeholder approach has its limits.

News & Articles

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• King County flood hazard management plan update continues; July 9 public meeting set
  With stakeholder guidance gathered from a series of public meetings, King County and the King County Flood Control District are moving forward with the update of its floodplain management plan.
  June 16, 2013 - Kent Reporter
• Internet Society urges transparency in intellectual property discussions
  Greater transparency, as well as respect for the Internet's open architecture and multi-stakeholder participation, are needed to help guide discussions around intellectual property policy on the Internet, according to the Internet Society.        
  June 15, 2013 - TechWorld
• Don't hurt the Web with rushed intellectual property laws, urges Internet Society
  Greater transparency, as well as respect for the Internet’s open architecture and multi-stakeholder participation, are needed to help guide discussions around intellectual property policy on the Internet, according to the Internet Society. Those principles and others comprise a new set of standards designed partly to address the explosion of content that has hit the Internet in recent years and ...
  June 14, 2013 - PC World

Quotes

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• Timothy Keating in International Herald Tribune
  Adm. Timothy Keating told senators at a hearing in Washington that the naval scrape was among incidents showing that China's "behavior as a responsible stakeholder has yet to be consistently" shown.
• Penny Wong in Sydney Morning Herald
  We will carefully consider Professor Garnaut's views, as well as those of the community and business, as we develop our green paper on emissions trading,Senator Wong said. "No stakeholder will have an undue influence and we will always...
• Robert Zoellick in Boston Globe (registration)
  Beijing's step last week in joining the list of donors to the World Bank arm that channels grants and concessional loans to the poorest countries was an example of "China being a stakeholder in the field of development," Zoellick said.