Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officer corps was even more nationalist than he. Moreover, the Dayton analogy may have been stretched, in the sense that Dayton came after a three-year ground war that had left both sides exhausted. The Serbs called NATO?s bluff, leaving the alliance compelled to respond forcefully, for the sake of its credibility as much as anything else...
...shocked everyone, but for the club's sake, it had to be done," Ahn said. Now, he and his peers have less control over their club, now that the bill-paying alums have flexed their muscle...
...That's a kind of bad aspect of comparison with the '60s, the idea of activism for activism's sake," Hennefeld says. "We don't want to be associated with that...
...over-indulging in the shoulder-shrugging "screw it all" motivation to do something they might never have done otherwise. And that's fine. Nihilism and the Last Chance Dance are good up to a point-the occasional bridge needs to go up in flames, if only for form's sake. But we seem to be embracing the opportunities for closure a little too heartily these days. The past is and always will be with you-didn't anyone else see "The Last Days of Disco?" Don't cut so many social threads this Thursday, and instead let them run through...
...heaven's sake, America--grow up! An incredulous world looks on while you self-indulgently natter on and on about the right to bear arms [SPECIAL REPORT, May 3]. You prattle about how to sensitize parents, teachers and school counselors to the warning signals of impending mass killings by ticked-off teenagers with easy access to assault weapons. Do what the rest of us have done after similar massacres in Canada, Britain and New Zealand: immediately pass stringent gun-control laws. Trust us, it works. Just do it. MERLIE PAPADOPOULLOS Montreal...