Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prurience: "There are still people in this world who like to think things over, and they often turn out to be very good people indeed ... If she doesn't want to, she doesn't want to. So be a good sport about it, for God's sake...
...superintendent of schools. We have the Amoco chairman's own word that Swearingen is sympathetic to the poor. When asked by New York magazine in 1977 about the effect of high gasoline prices on lower income families, Swearingen replied, "I'm sympathetic to poor people, but for heaven's sake, let's not ruin our future to take care of a relatively few people....What is a man on relief doing owning an automobile? Let's not let our sympathies run away with...
Whatever the government finally decides, Home Secretary Whitelaw indicated that it would not abandon its monetarist austerity for the sake of financial subsidies to depressed areas like Brixton. Said Whitelaw: "The idea that you can buy your way out of problems in different areas I don't believe to be sound and the Americans have found it that way." Britons may now be finding out something else that the U.S. has already discovered: the road to racial harmony is long and arduous...
...sufficient degree. Howard Cohen as Hiram Parts stands out from the group, but in all, the characters tend to get lost in the shuffle. Why Sellon then insists in the second act that each couple have a denouement duet is incomprehensible unless it was just for the sake of tying up the many loose ends. By doing so he simply deprives the show of its punch and brevity...
Criticizing the "cold-war hysteria of the Reagan Administration," the liberal priest warned that present U.S. foreign policy "may force the Russians to take retaliatory measures against the Soviet Jews." Instead, he suggested that detente continue for the "sake of the Jews," who have "historically been the most oppressed victims of persecution" in Russia...