Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since their birth in the mid- '70s as the art school brats of the Manhattan punk family. Talking Heads have been the living epitome of progress for progress's sake, the petulant seekers of the edge of accessibility simply because it was there Things got started with the paranoiac minimalism of Talking Heads '77, but expanded exponentially in experimentation and generosity of spirit. The musical odyssey culminated in the pan-cultural celebration of African polyrhythms and Enofied guitar blips and wails of Remain in Light quite possibly take away one song. "The Overload" the most seamless piece of sound...
...citizens realize the extent to which they are exposed to hazardous materials and the medical dangers of this exposure, pressure will undoubtedly mount for stricter regulation of toxic chemicals. The implicit, if not the stated, aim of the Right to Know legislation is not knowledge for knowledge's sake, but the power to mandate a safe work environment. Simply knowing that the chemicals he handles each day are carcinogens is no great boon to a worker who cannot afford to leave his job. Employers are justified in their fears that the new law would prompt rigorous, and yes, costly safeguards...
...because an all-out nuclear war means collective suicide, we can imagine that a potential aggressor might count on a lack of resolve on the part of the country under attack to take the step leading to that suicide, i.e., it could count on its victim capitulating for the sake of saving what could be saved. There must be a strategic parity of nuclear forces so that neither side will venture to embark on a limited or regional nuclear war. Of course I realize that in attempting not to lag behind a potential enemy in any way, we condemn ourselves...
...current U.S. policy toward our southern neighbors is not new [June 6]; we have used it before. For the sake of American business interests and the political stability needed to ensure their profits, we have denied support to legitimately elected governments and popular revolutions, causing them to turn elsewhere for help. Then we shake an accusing finger in their faces as we staunchly affirm our resistance to Communist incursions...
...20th century, but those committed in the name of religion and morality should also be remembered-for example, the Crusades. It is not secularization or moral relativism that has created the horrors of our age, but rather mankind's consistent willingness to sacrifice a fellow being for the sake of some ideal, be it secular or religious...