Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruled out a return to the kind of shuttle diplomacy made famous by his predecessor and mentor, Henry Kissinger. Haig's view is that since the Egyptians and Israelis are on speaking terms these days, a resumption of the shuttle would amount to "theater for theater's sake." One future possibility: a "mini-Camp David," at which Haig and Foreign Ministers Ali and Shamir would meet for several days of negotiations, leading, it would be hoped, to a draft agreement. -By William E. Smith. Reported by Johanna McGeary with Haig
...streets near sensitive government and military installations have been closed in an attempt to foil terrorists. Death threats against Frederic Chapin, Washington's Ambassador to Guatemala, were taken so seriously that a special Marine sniper team was temporarily added to the U.S. embassy staff. For safety's sake, Chapin and his wife spent part of the Christmas season in a makeshift bedroom in the ambassador's office rather than at home...
...left over. The commuters, say researchers, single-mindedly await the day when they can become ordinary one-city folk again."They are functioning on 'deferred gratification,' " says Sociologist Sussman. They are, in other words, the new troops of the Protestant ethic, enduring hardship now for the sake of better days ahead. - By John Leo. Reported by Maureen Dowd/ Washington and Nancy Pierce Williamson/New York, with other bureaus
There are very few things that passionately arouse my roommate, whom I will call Susan for the sake of anonymity. In fact, only three come to mind: running 30-mile races in the heat of Yosemite, Calif., snowshoeing in New Hampshire the day before an exam in -15-degree weather, and watching the San Francisco Forty-Niners...
...WEEKS, the Harvard Corporation will vote on the plans for a massive office and condominium project on Mt. Auburn St. We urge it to approve the development--for its own sake, but even more as an affirmation of the open, cooperative way University officials went about planning the complex...