Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would have Blacks pay is, for many, too high. The price is for Blacks to forsake their very identity as a race in order to get ahead. The price is to give up Black friendships we have formed out of choice in favor of "inter-ethnic" ties for the sake of future financial contacts. Kilson's argument makes perfect monetary sense but true friendships should be of a higher order...
...world, though definitely not the best liked. The problem is his disposition: people ask more of him than he requires of himself. He perplexed them last summer by prompting expectations he did not attempt to fulfill. That is, no heroic measures were taken or, even for the sake of decency, feigned. All he did was win four gold medals...
...spending more time on the job. The typical board member of a large corporation puts in 196 hours a year, up 40% from six years ago, according to the executive-recruiting firm Korn/Ferry International. As a result, executives are less inclined to pile up multiple directorships just for the sake of prestige. Sidney J. Weinberg, a legendary financier of the 1950s, once served on 31 boards. By comparison, his son John L. Weinberg, chairman of Wall Street's Goldman, Sachs & Co., holds only six director's posts. The pay remains lucrative. The consulting firm Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby reports that...
...House life his intentions were considerably more limited than those of today's critics Lowell chiefly sought to mix rich and poor, to eliminate the townhouse tenement disparity. He did not search for an Idaho resident to put in each House merely for diversity's sake...
Making decisions and living with then ramifications is a vital part of a student's education. For the sake of ideological consistency, the college ought to support a system that maintains the sanctity of choice...