Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard-nosed. "The concept of earlier decades was population growth at all costs," says McCall. "Well, that cost is now proving too much to pay, and we want none of that in Oregon." McCall started to tell tourists two years ago, "Come visit us, but for heaven's sake don't come here to live." Now he adds, "Soon we're probably going to have to say 'Don't even visit...
EVEN THE MOVIES say "War is hell". What the movies rarely tell us is that war is ugly. Surely, we all understand, at least abstractly, the ethical ambivalence involved in ending life for the sake of the living. Still, for generations of Americans raised on hazy memories of "righteous" wars from the War of Independence down to World War II, these incidentals are trivial stacked against the glory of our supposed war-time causes. Suffering merely humbles the victor, makes his triumph more noble, more admirable. It entitles him to his booty. Political and social questions aside, this points...
...proprietary schools' training courses are short (often less than a year) and tuition is cheap (about $1.50 per classroom hour as against the colleges' $4 or more). Explains J.S. Olins, vice president of the Bryman School: "We're not interested in education for education's sake but in education for employment's sake...
Swaps. European leaders were increasingly disturbed about the burden of propping up the dollar. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns argued that for the sake of improving the international monetary climate the U.S. should take part in supporting its currency. Moreover, if the U.S. helped decrease the amount of dollars abroad, foreign governments would feel less need to impose currency controls. (Reason: the controls, which impede international trade and investment, are designed largely to keep dollars...
SALLY PEIL, 22, Georgia, a senior math major at West Georgia College in Carrollton, Ga., first thought of running for delegate last February when a history professor suggested it to her and sev eral other students. "We thought heaven's sake, that can't be possible That's strictly for the old people was elected largely with student votes. She all but the swooned when she first entered the convention hall: "Everything was so high, so big. I was lost. There were people everywhere. It was so exciting. If you could breathe in the atmosphere...