Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America. In the U.S. in the 1850s, the heyday of Manifest Destiny, the region was regarded chiefly as an inviting target for territorial expansion. By the turn of the century, the United Fruit Co. was cheered on as it went buccaneering through the region, buying governmental favors for the sake of more and cheaper bananas. Bananas, in fact, were the raison d'être of Central America in the minds of most Americans, who saw the "banana republics" as a comic-opera fiefdom for U.S. commerce...
...look back," Reagan told TIME, "you find that those great social reforms really didn't work. They didn't cure unemployment. They didn't solve social problems. What came from them was a group of people who became entrenched in Government, who wanted social reforms just for the sake of social reforms. They didn't see them as temporary medicine as most people saw them, to cure the ills of the Depression. They saw them as a permanent way of life...
...merely as a kind of protectorate, the protector now petulant and moody after several open rebuffs. Friendship applied to countries is as slippery as that applied to individuals, and must be safeguarded in similar ways. Each side has to realize when it has diverged too far-when, for the sake of the cheap thrill of discomfiting one's friend, it risks the friendship entirely...
...downtown Miami or Miami Beach and sense, if you look at the old, somehow more tropical building from the 1920s that brought people down here a long time ago. But afterwards you will always feel that Miami lost its innocence along the way, somehow sold its soul for the sake of prosperity...
...label resisters selfish, but the charge loses its sting in the light of the political selfishness that brought registration back. Those who resist a policy at high personal cost because they find it immoral and unwise are courageous next to those who legislate the fate of others for the sake of their own gain...