1.   AMD had to do it because it is the sort of company that stakes its fortune on selling chips for less than Intel.

2.   And several startup companies have staked their fortune on the concept.

3.   Companies have staked their fortunes on the hope that players will return again and again to the scene of their deaths.

4.   Kia group is staking its fortune on Kim Dae Joong, the presidential candidate of the main opposition National Congress for New Politics, according to Korean newspapers.

5.   After staking his fortunes with former Premier Silvio Berlusconi, the leader of a highly courted centrist party struggled Saturday to keep it from splintering.

6.   For the last century, central Utah has staked its fortune on coal mining.

7.   In New Hampshire, where tradition favors the underdog and where McCain and Dole have staked their fortunes, both are in a statistical dead heat for second place.