Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other cheap shots include the incorporation of a love interest simply for the sake of filming a pretty woman and a kiss or two; and a deliberately vague and utterly pointless sequence involving an American runner whose pursed lips and pink-rimmed eyeglasses blatantly suggest homosexuality, whose furtive movements imply an unidentified danger, and whose existence in the film never is justified even remotely...
...AWACS sale debate. Saudi Arabia is a very close friend of the U.S. Saudi Arabia has increased its oil production for the sake of the U.S. and the West. The gulf is an area of U.S. interest and defending the gulf is in the interest of the U.S. The AWACS has no guns. It can't carry bombs. I'm astonished that Israel is raising hell against it. It's of no danger to Israel...
...idea of uniformed vigilantes mobilizing wherever they deem their presence is needed. Romantic visions of wild, wild West ranchers hunting down evil bandits should not overshadow other examples in our history of people taking the law into their own hands. The Ku Klux Klan, after all, lynched for the sake of Southern order and womanhood...
...special track built for the all-passenger TGV service has continuous welded rails-no clickety-clack-and concrete sleepers for stability. For safety's sake, since the TGV needs about two miles to stop at 162 m.p.h., there are no level crossings. Nor are there any new tunnels, since the powerful (6,300 kw.) trains can climb gradients as steep as 3.5% at full speed. Since the train moves too fast for the driver to pick up track-side signals, a console in the cab "reads ahead" and provides digital readouts informing him of the speed he will have...
...Democracy is under challenge," he said. "But I refuse to vote against my convictions for the sake of power...