Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been carried aloft like an icon by demonstrators in every major Western capital. His name has become a household word from Jerusalem to New York. Prime Ministers and Presidents, including Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, have pleaded with the Kremlin to cut short his 13-year sentence. For his sake, rabbis chained themselves to the fence of the Soviet mission to the United Nations. Most eloquent on his behalf has been his wife Avital, an Israeli citizen who has tirelessly campaigned for his release...
...Lynch became the first foreign company to take a seat on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and start trading. Before Merrill Lynch's team of eleven traders made their debut on the exchange floor, they gathered at the company's Tokyo office to toast the venture with whisky, beer and sake. "It is a historic time for us and Japan," said Walter Burkett, a general manager. Merrill Lynch will soon be joined on the exchange by two other New York firms, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, and three British companies, Jardine Fleming, Vickers Da Costa and S.G. Warburg...
...these are not marginal players we are talking about here. Reggie Smith, Cecil Cooper, and Jim Rice were all among the most productive players on the team during their stay, and to alienate them for the sake of providing Haywood Sullivan and the white players with the best in cuisine during their grueling training is not the way to play...
...this point has taken a lot of hard work, especially for our older players," Delaney Smith said. "This has been an exciting, thrilling season and I hope for their sake that we can continue to play and improve like we have...
Your girlfriend says to you: "Why can't you be more like Sam Shepard?" She buys you denim jackets, refuses to wash your bluejeans, pickles your tongue with shots of tequila. "Why don't you buy a lasso?" she suggests. "Buck broncos, for Christ's sake. Dip snuff, do chaw, go smokeless, anything...