Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Susan declares at one point, which means that telling the story of how they met forces them to start all the way back at the Big Bang. A corollary of this notion troubles Susan: "We don't believe that Harry Truman created the Central Intelligence Agency for the sake of this story, do we?" Fenwick does not answer...
...grant Bok his contention that academic freedom would be imperiled. But it is harder to accept his argument that institutions should have neither friends nor enemies, only interests. This notion lies behind his plea for neutrality in the nonacademic realm: a university must protect its vested interests for the sake of academic freedom. Thus he focuses on method instead of effect; thus he strives to make detached cost-benefit analyses; thus his motives and his morals are in the end utilitarian. But there is no organic, causal connection between interests and ideals--unless one is rationalized...
...gonna be insanity if I even make it through the first few days." After lamenting the murder of Beatle John Lennon earlier that December, Hinckley continued: "Jodie is the only thing that matters now. Anything that I might do in 1981 would be solely for Jodie Foster's sake, and I mean that sincerely. I want to make some kind of statement or something on her behalf. Just tell the world in some way that I worship and idolize...
Woodward's ebullient talk prompted winces back in London, and he was quickly chided by his Admiralty superiors. Grumbled an aide to Prime Minister Thatcher: "Boast if you must when you've won. But for God's sake, to tell people in advance that you've got it is not even common prudence...
...letter, which was also sent to The Boston Globe and the Chronicle of Higher Education, criticizes what the CSA perceives to be Bok's underlying assumption "that education is not valuable for its own sake, but only because a diploma may make a person a more productive economic unit...