Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grew crisp again. "You tell whoever it was that John Mitchell knows me well enough to call me himself if he has anything more like that to say to me. And tell them I can't do it-won't do it. For the President's sake I'm going to handle this one just like any other case...
...winning a Nobel Prize--and haunted by his own homosexuality and his fear of public exposure. Born during the reign of Queen Victoria, he clung to Edwardian values of keeping up appearances; he had many affairs with women, and eventually married and fathered a child, for propriety's sake alone. Even during the fifties and early sixties, until the time of his death, he took pains to conceal "the love that dares not speak its name," and flared up violently at any reference to his taste for young...
Despite these flaws, Decade of Decision offers Americans of the '80s a compelling new vision. Harrington's greatest contribution to future policy debates--his fundamental humanism--is, ironically, sometimes buried under his droning statistics. He cares about the people who suffer for the sake of economic efficiency or profit margins. Harrington argues that we cannot ignore the human costs of our economic and political decisions. He offers an alternative to the counsels of despair or indifference...
...reasons, Begin's shaky coalition could collapse at any time, thereby forcing new elections. The certain winner perhaps even with a clear majority in the Knesset, according to recent polls would be the Labor Party, which has never been particularly enthusiastic about settlements for settlements' sake. The Labor solution to the West Bank problem has traditionally involved a "territorial compromise" with Jordan, perhaps leading to a West Bank-East Bank state whose population would be roughly 80% Palestinian...
...under Amman's rule; he is disenchanted with what he calls a "two-faced American policy that talks of human rights while providing weapons for the Israeli occupation." Palestinians, he adds, "feel more and more that they are fighting America and not just Israel, and all for the sake of Jewish voters in New York." Irsheid believes a federation between the East and West Bank would be prosperous. He rejects the Israeli claim to settlement rights as "ludicrous." After all, he asks, "if I ruled Spain 700 years ago, can I claim to take over the government there...