Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope it isn't an episode like last year," Cleary said. "They were hitting for the sake of hitting...
...delivering stolen cars for shipment to Haiti, reburying a murdered colleague whose resting place is threatened by a new housing development. Hill forms no permanent friendships and makes no future plans. Everything is for the moment, and associates, even those who gave him a hand, are betrayed for the sake of the bigger payoff, the easier deal. Only at home is life a chore. "You'll find that most wiseguy wives do their own housework, no matter how rich they are," Hill tells Pileggi, "because strangers can't be trusted to keep their mouths shut." Modern wiseguys who cannot keep...
Gregory Nagy, chairman of the committee on Folklore and Mythology, is intertested in "quality, not quantity" in concentrators. He is satisfied to have relatively few concentrators in Folklore and Mythology who are dedicated to the field. "We don't want to expand for expansion's sake," he says. "The kind of undergraduate concentrators we are looking for are very special people. We're ready to discourage people...
...This is more of a challenge to me," she says. "It means a lot to teach someone to read and to associate things with numbers. I don't like to work for the sake of working. I wanted to do something that would make a difference...
...damage has already been done this fall. Roger Maris would have been more than willing to give up his asterisk for the sake of Harvard students anytime. Better yet, may the registrar--and the students--of this college never permit valuable January days to vanish in the future...