Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Agreed Brzezinski: "The world is experiencing a global political awakening without precedent in history . . . At the same time, the world is undergoing a significant redistribution of economic and political power . . . Any attempt to create artificial obstacles to change for the sake of the status quo will merely foster U.S. isolation and irrelevance." The task, he said, "is to steer change in positive directions and to identify America with such change...
...Moro case. The prize catch appeared to be one of the Autonomisti's leading theoreticians, Antonio Negri, 45. He is a soft-spoken political scientist who teaches at both Italy's University of Padua and Paris' Ecole Normale Superieure and has sympathized with violence for the sake of proletarian revolution. Accused of practicing what he preaches, as both a secret organizer of the Red Brigades and a figure in the Moro atrocity, he was taken to Rome for interrogation...
Decontrol could lead some oil companies to drill merely for the sake of appearances. Opinion among Exxon's top management was divided on whether to invest what eventually became $460 million last year in a so-far futile search for oil in the Baltimore Canyon area of the Atlantic. Though preliminary seismic studies were not encouraging, the company went ahead anyway. The decision was made partly on the grounds that it could not be seen as declining to explore in an area so close to the petroleum-hungry Northeast...
...experimenting with nothing higher on the evolutionary ladder than the intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. Judson's characters are not primarily interested in great practical payoffs but in a grand intellectual quest: solving puzzles, under standing nature rather than dominating it. The game is science for science's sake...
...doing basic research for basic research's sake." Tang explained, noting that applying recent research is a priority among Chinese scientists...