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Word: sakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reality, life has gone downhill since I turned in my thesis, and I hold April wholly responsible. First of all, it's amazing how much work can pile up when you totally ignore three courses for the sake of one project. And it's amazing how the thought of returning to Harvard in September to take a second shot at the Social Analysis requirement can resuscitate long-dormant study habits...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: April Showers, Life Sours | 4/13/1988 | See Source »

...computer-dazzled counterparts in the research divisions of Fortune 500 companies. In turn, the corporate techies built glitzy prototypes that ran on exotic hardware. By the mid-1980s it became clear that both groups had missed the point: big companies did not want sexy technology for its own sake; they wanted solutions to business problems. Consequently, a number of once gung-ho companies began to sour on artificial-intelligence technology as expensive and impractical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Knowledge to Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...seems clear that campaign tactics cannot be condemned merely because they seem immoral or unethical. Little virtue will be gained by compelling the parties to be good, nor is there any reason to suppose that Congress intended the representation election as a drill in proper behavior for its own sake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok on Labor | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

...your opinion. does not require a drill in proper behavior for its own sake, the Harvard community--students, facility, alumni and staff--most unequivocally does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok on Labor | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

...than the average American luge run. Still, George vowed to slay the dragon of Olympic mediocrity: "We should go after ((excellence)) and spare no expense." So with baseball an exhibition sport this summer in Seoul, would Owner Steinbrenner donate an ace Yankee hurler during the pennant stretch for the sake of national glory? Sure -- "if the other owners did." Pause. Hmm. Well . . . "You wouldn't want to give up your star players. Maybe somebody from Triple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: In the Aftermath, Grousing About the U.S. | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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