Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cases like this one--where one academic relocates for the sake of a spouse's career-have become more and more common in recent years...
...however, we need only look at another provision of McClure-Volkmer. That provision would restrict law-enforcement authorities to one surprise inspection of gun dealers per year. So if you are a gun dealer, and your shop has already been inspected, feel free to relax your standards for the sake of sales; the NRA will do its part to be sure that the law protects your laxness. Clearly more than protecting honest sportsmen is at stake...
...vendor in the main square, Lucy stumbles onto a street fight--an Edwardian equivalent of a gang war. Fainting away at the sight of a youth expiring at her feet, she is carried off by the already enamored George, no doubt eager to demonstrate his frustrated manhood for the sake of his lady in distress. When Lucy awakens, George confesses that "something has changed"--he will never be the same. For him, at least, this brief episode was the work of Fate...
Ohno willingly sacrifices his personal scoring for the sake of the team. He backchecks and forechecks, taking opposing players out of the flow of their offenses. He'll fall to the ice late in a game to block an opponent's slapshot...
Most students offer a number of reasons why they sacrifice their bodies and time to become human guinea pigs for the sake of scientific research...