Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Portman's $8 million vacation house is not yet finished, but sightseers are flocking to it, and some of his neighbors are knocking it. "This bad taste is being foisted on us for the sake of an ego trip," sniffed one. Protested another: "I'm a fan of his architecture, but this abuses the environment." Dismayed by the reaction, Portman refuses to discuss the project. Still, the opposition has its social limits. Asked if residents would snub the Portmans when the family moves in, one islander replied, "Lord, no. We'll be waiting / at the door for an invitation...
Mario Cumo is, indeed, one of "the saviors of American liberalism." He is an exciting leader, with strong beliefs, courage and conviction and has infused new excitement into an old political faith. Cohen sounds like a writer trying to say something unusual for the sake of being different; in making the attempt, he belies an ignorance of New York politics and Mario Cuomo. Marc A. Bodnick...
...quite another matter to promote exclusivity for exclusivity's sake. To do so is to elevate some at the expense of others, all the while pandering to society's crudest ideas of success and failure...
...Surely this is one bill you can't criticize just for the sake of criticism...
...warnings that continued detention of Daniloff will sour all U.S.-Soviet relations. But for the moment, the President is acting like anything but the hip-shooting cowboy of liberal legend and his own past oratory. That he is willing to risk alienating his own bedrock conservative constituency for the sake of keeping the hope of an arms-control deal alive says much about the pressure of presidential responsibility in reshaping the attitudes of any occupant of the Oval Office...