Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard community as for what it attempts to promote in South Africa. The letter articulates a clear dissatisfaction with the Corporation's current investment policy. It represents a willingness of large numbers of Faculty members to compromise their opinions of what may be the best investment policy for the sake of most effectively showing their disenchantment with the Corporation's current policy. And it shows their desire to establish a clear, coherent and conscionable policy that takes into account more than just the fate of Harvard's investment portfolio...
...that point, Diebold withdrew as a witness rather than disclose reports to clients "on things genuinely unconnected with the case for the sake of a fishing expedition on the part of the Justice Department." As he told the TIME conference:"Gradually, I realized that the Government lawyers don't understand what they're doing." For example, according to the Government's definition of the "general purpose" computer market, there were only eight competitors in 1969, said Diebold. "Since that date, we have clocked something on the order of 300 new players in thegame- Japanese, French, American. During...
Last season ABC took its share of heat for Washington: Behind Closed Doors, a fictionalized twelve-hour mini-series about Watergate. ABC played fast and loose with historical facts: all names and most events were altered for the sake of heightening the White House horrors. In a new, eight-hour Watergate series, Blind Ambition, CBS has tried to profit from ABC's dilemma. A docu-drama adapted from John Dean's memoir (among other sources), Blind Ambition recites enough facts to satisfy the most literal and obsessive Watergate buff. Yet scrupulous accuracy does not necessarily make for good...
Just now, she is polishing up her show. Rickie Lee's performance, loose and good-natured, is also self-deprecatory in a winning way. "Oh, for Christ's sake, sit down," she smiles at some folks in the audience attempting to give her a standing ovation. Also, to make sure she keeps close to her roots, she fixes a parking meter downstage as part of the show. "I really do hang out at the parking meter," she explains. She was even going to load it up with change to time her set, but she forgot. She just...
...force. Laetrile cures cancer, acupuncture is useful for deafness and low-back pain, vitamins are good for anything, and meditation, yoga, dancing, biofeedback, and shouting one another down in crowded rooms over weekends are specifics for the human condition. Running, a good thing to be doing for its own sake, has acquired the medicinal value formerly attributed to rare herbs from Indonesia...