Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urge our wives and families to go to America and Israel and press there because the keys of our issue are there," he said. "Moving in Lebanon is useless. You must press on America for the sake of Alann Steen...
...accounting. It was a matter of cost per thousand, the fewest dollars for the most kills. In this banal light, a nuclear bomb is the pinnacle of efficiency, a macabre paradox because it was brought about by the best minds working within a great humanist tradition. For the sake of spiritual harmony, it could be said that The Making of the Atomic Bomb recounts the second greatest story ever told...
...next to nothing of the life familiar to them. To him, America is the Lower East Side of Manhattan plus the abstract, rectilinear shapes of the states on the map he stares at hour after hour. The story that this married couple tells is comic but grim: for the sake of freedom they have given up money, status, craft and identity. They are not only strangers in a strange land, they are becoming strangers to themselves. The U.S. can be a promised land for those who have nothing. For an artist, the promise may be a mirage...
...asked what he would like people to know about him as they go through the report. A born-again Christian, North replied, "I guess they ought to read the Eighth Beatitude of Matthew 5." That New Testament passage reads: "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." As Iranscam's investigations continue, however, North is more likely to be prosecuted for recklessness' sake...
...politicization of research could push scholarly work towards looking for marketable products instead of searching for 'Veritas' for its own sake," Harvard lobbyist Parker Coddington said last month...