Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, during which the writer lives in a cottage on the grounds of a Victorian-Edwardian manor in a Wiltshire valley within easy walking distance of Stonehenge and Salisbury Plain. In the beginning he arrives; at the end he goes. In between, this writer (hereafter called, for the sake of convenience, Naipaul) thinks occasionally about the first 18 years of his life in Trinidad, "my insecure past," and the scholarship that took him to Oxford and England, "the other man's country." He reveals nothing about his university experiences and alludes only glancingly to the following 15 years he spent...
...reasonable person would suggest that the long-term health of the endowment be sacrificed for the sake of a generation of students. However, reasonable people in the financial office evidently have forgotten that it is no more desirable to sacrifice the financial health of undergraduates for the sake of the endowment's never-ending multiplication. They should correct this--and soon...
...February, I hope that the point here has been made. In the interest of fairness, editorials must be written not on the basis of distorted perceptions of fact, but on the basis of the facts themselves. If the editorial staff must have its fits of forgetfulness for the sake of argument, it is crucial to remember one thing: there is a distinction between constructive criticism and pointless platitudes. Anyone can blurt out ill-informed aspersions about Council proposals. But designing well-thought-out alternative measures if another thing indeed. The Council needs and welcomes constructive criticism. The Crimson...
...task has the general aim of sharply cutting back on costs to make dramatic and durable improvements in long-term profitability and growth. Restructuring's theme is "back to basics." That means, among other things, an end to the corporate ethos of expansion for expansion's sake. It spells farewell to the notion, always more imagined than real, of the corporation as a kind of private-sector welfare state, with unlimited perks and unshakable job security. It also involves frequently deep retrenchment, as U.S. corporations cut back on marginal operations, strip away unnecessary layers of management and staff and refocus...
...author overextends herself when she tries to occupy the high critical ground. She judges J.F.K. as deficient in the kind of courage celebrated in Profiles: "the willingness to risk position, power, career for the sake of some abiding conviction." But she also argues that Kennedy was a strong leader because he was "unobstructed by ideological preconception." She is on much firmer ground when sticking to her own preconception, an alluring vision of history as romance...