Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ideas and innovation into bitter anger. That approach worked for a while, but Elvis eventually crumbled under the weight of his own expections. It's time for him to focus his loosey-goosey energies once more. You know it's coming, and you have to hope for El's sake that his new tactics aren't as self-destructive...
...firmly in the habit of seeing high school as only a means to a practical end. Getting into college has long been the most obvious of these ends. But its overriding importance has made it harder and harder to conceive of cleaning up pre-college academics for their own sake. Now the urgency and, perhaps, the practical inspirations are there. Curriculum reform could become one of the most valuable projects of the 1980s--but not unless educators and the public can shake off their obsession with that one crucial, transitional year...
Although the Suzuki solution fell far short of their earlier demands, neither China nor South Korea seemed willing last week to risk lucrative trade ties with Tokyo for the sake of setting the record straight. China's Foreign Ministry summoned Japan's ambassador to demand an earlier revision, even while officials in Peking sent word to Suzuki through informal channels that he was still welcome to visit China this fall for the tenth anniversary of the normalization of ties between the two countries...
...violently push away. She taunts him with gossip about her former conquests: Shakespeare, Aristophanes, T.S. Eliot, everyone, in fact, whom Miles might hopelessly wish to emulate. He wonders aloud why she will not transform herself more frequently into the shape of that delightful West Indian nurse, simply for the sake of varied stimulation, if she is so confident of her own seductive powers...
...when mineworker riots forced then Prime Minister Jan Smuts to declare martial law. At the annual meeting of the union's general council, Mineworkers' President Cor de Jager denounced the government commission's recommendation that skilled jobs be opened to all races. Said he: "For the sake of the money bosses and the blacks, the white workers are to be placed on an altar for sacrifice...