Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alstyne and his Back Alley partner, Marty Coffey, endorse the Shakespeare Brothers' credo of street performing for its own sake but admit in the same breath that they would like to play clubs some day. Or, they admit, they "could get fed up with the whole routine." In the meantime, they hope to save money from this summer's tour for a trip to Australia this winter and perhaps Europe next year. What they and others seem to desire more than anything else is constant variety. Coffey was once a cabinet maker, Val Alstyne "a three-piece, nine-to-five...
...Democrats are going to see very few victories in the next year and a half. Politics being what it is, the sides only really change at election time, and there's not another one of those until the fall of 1982. Fighting for the sake of fighting can only squander whatever energy liberals still have; instead, the paramount task must be finding ways to start all over. There has been a wake, but that doesn't mean there can't be a christening before too long...
...funds against, say, Brazil, or a company that is acquiring another? More than 60% of U.S. families own their own homes, primarily because we have had an industry not permitted to make loans other than for residential mortgages. Should we turn our backs on this success purely for the sake of "deregulation...
...dead man. "J.D. never would, never will do that. They were friends. There's no respect in that." He mentions the plastic Elvis clones in New York. "Hell," he says. "It still won't be Elvis." He points to the people. "Hell, they'll know for God's sake. They'll know it's not Elvis. You can walk like him, talk like him, sing like him, look like him--it won't be Elvis." What will be missing? Charisma? Memory? Promotion? Mabye grace. Who knows...
...Egyptian-Israeli dialogue be reconsidered if Sadat aides had not intervened to cool off the members of his own party. Egyptian officials, moreover, expressed concern that the U.S.'s own credibility in the Middle East was at stake and urged Washington to take a decisive stand for the sake of its interests in the region...