Word: sake
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Even though I was older than the players, I feel as though socially everyone was happy and worked so hard and really did anything for the sake of the team, which is very rare in sports,” she says. “When you can come across a team where people did anything and everything they could to see the team succeed regardless if it was short of what they wanted to do—if they had to sit a shift because someone else needed to play or those sort of acts—it?...
Even after their term with HoCo expired this winter, improving House spirit remained paramount for Corker and his friends. Leaving the world of study break preparation behind, they upped the stakes, throwing themselves in the line of fire for the sake of good old-fashioned House enthusiasm...
...believe the main difference between us is that he is conservative in the sense of being inherently suspicious of change,” Bosco wrote of Mansfield in an e-mail. “He reveres old institutions for their own sake, and deeply admires proponents of aristocracy such as Edmund Burke. Mainstream American conservatism, in contrast, focuses heavily on liberty and the rights of the individual. Such conservatives venerate Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson over proponents of aristocracy like Burke...
...said the recent rise in students who lack concrete plans is due in large part to the decline in recruiting that accompanied the economic downturn. Less aggressive recruiting means fewer opportunities for undecided students to take jobs simply for the sake of being employed...
...jaunty piano melody that Elton John would kill to have written and a giddy retro chorus--"Gonna take your mama out all night/Yeah we'll show her what it's all about." Even mildly inquisitive Queer Eye viewers could imagine it was just another great party anthem. For the sake of the Scissor Sisters' bank accounts, long live obliviousness...