Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that choked off the development of nuclear-power plants and led to growing reliance on coal and oil. The bill for that decision is beginning to come due. The question that will increasingly haunt energy-policy debate is this: What degree of environmental risk should be accepted for the sake of adding domestic fuel supplies to a nation that has never been able or willing to practice sufficient conservation and yet rightly views dependence on foreign-oil imports as a threat to economic and military security...
...said, "That faculty in the last 10 years has been going through the kind of thing that Arts and Sciences did way back then [in the 1960s] because of a group in there that feel that law is something that the powers-that-be use not for justice's sake but for their own advantage and that law itself is evil. They're real out-and-out Marxists, these people...
...example, Fallows said "there is more emphasis on effort for its own sake in Japan, and more emphasis on teamwork" than in the United States and suggested that Americans improve conditions so that more people enjoy their work. But the cultural differences can never be completely eliminated, he said...
...months. Not only are elections a party matter, which should have been decided by De Klerk, but the caucus was eager to call an election as early as May to take advantage of pratfalls by the opposition parties. Botha protests that he is "not looking for power for the sake of power," and does "not cling to posts." But it seems to many of his colleagues that his arbitrary postponement of the election to next year, when it must be held by March, reveals nothing so much as his desire to hold on to power as long...
...most significant aspect of the Ayatullah's "send him to hell" speech was his emphasis on the rifts within his own government and his fears about the influence of those he called "misled liberals." Said Khomeini: "We should not, for the sake of pleasing several sellout liberals, act in a way that gives the impression that the Islamic Republic of Iran is deviating from its principled positions." Suddenly Rushdie's purported blasphemy seemed minor compared with the sins of Iranian officials who had dared support a renewal of ties with the decadent West...