Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corporate-supported European studies. He gives the example of a rubber company that may pollute the air in a city and then feel compelled, out of community relations, to build a hospital in the area. Logically, then, if that company got its rubber from outside the country: "For the sake of argument, say they got the rubber from Liberia, well then why not put the money in African studies?" Most Ford executives sent to run Opel in Germany read "only two-three books on Germany" before going over, Goldman says, often causing strained relations between the corporation and the host...
Ruin and Collapse. It is axiomatic in Beckett's work that the concept of purpose is beyond comprehension. This may not be true, but if granted only for the sake of argument, everything tumbles into place. Waiting for Godot was after all the critical knuckle cracking, simply a play about waiting. Mercier and Camier are waiting under the illusion that they have some place to go, though they do not know where or why. They keep returning home to look for lost possessions or items they have al ready junked as superfluous. Along the way, pub stops...
...Jurivich, coach of the Radcliffe track club, said the women on the squad enjoy "running for its own sake" and that he feels there would be "no profound changes" in their enthusiasm if Radcliffe track became a varsity sport...
...better barometers of economic distress than unemployment among teenagers (19.9% v. 15.3%). But the BLS defends including marginal members of the work force in the overall figures on the grounds that they are counted as employed when they hold jobs and thus, for the sake of consistency, should be regarded as unemployed when they...
...basic knowledge that public leaders need to carry out their responsibilities is very much a seamless web. For simplicity's sake, however, it is possible to distinguish among three major forms of knowledge: a familiarity with the more sophisticated analytic methods that are increasingly used in the planning and evaluation of public programs; a knowledge of methods of organization and management together with an understanding of the political processes that influence government action; and a sensitivity to the problems of ethics and competing values that inhere in all forms of public activity...