Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rise in British export prices in the past year. But, as speculators rushed out of the pound and into stronger currencies, the pound's weakness threatened to unsettle the whole network of currency-exchange rates that was stitched together in last December's Smithsonian Agreement. For the sake of stability, Britain's Common Market partners-to-be last month urged Heath to make a modest formal devaluation quickly. Rumors circulated that Heath had agreed, but only on condition that the pound be pegged as low as $2.25. That sharp cut reportedly horrified other European leaders, notably French President Georges Pompidou...
...House system should not be abandoned or compromised for the sake of equal admissions. It will be no credit to this Administration if it leaves Harvard an institution socially avant-garde but educationally waning...
...Administration-backed bill banning more school busing for the sake of achieving racial desegregation. Recognizing the same political advantage the President saw, the majority of Senators and Congressmen were ready to pitch in and make this bill law, but they were thwarted by filibusters by Liberals Jacob Javits and Walter Mondale...
...expectant and too anti-authoritarian for many of the jobs that the economy offers them. Affluence, the new rise in hedonism, and the antimaterialistic notions expressed in Charles Reich's The Greening of America have turned many young people against their parents' dedication to work for the sake of success...
...more important than the study itself. Its arguments are significant, and its concluding essay on strategies in approaching the political system is extremely well conceived. However, its most hopeful aspect is the non-hierarchical effort it embodies of people using the tools at their disposal for the sake of themselves and of other people. If their example is emulated by women thinking of starting or joining pressure groups, research committees, day care co-ops, or discussion groups, it will have done more to educate the feminist movement than if every woman reading the pamphlet were to, write her congressman...