Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have art for art's sake," she said, "but you can also have art for people's sake. That's what public art is all about...
...nation's largest such facility opened this week at Cornell University. Measuring 30 ft. high and 160 ft. wide, the $160,000 wall utilizes concrete blocks and specially designed pieces of real rock as hand- and footholds. For safety's sake, climbers wear helmets, are attached to emergency lines and work in teams. One partner on the ground mans his buddy's belaying line. In some places on the wall it is necessary to press one's face against the rock and inch upward clinging perilously to golf ball-size projections and toe-pinching crannies. Such realistic action thrills ascension...
...ORDER to satisfy eight Core requirements during the usual eight semesters at Harvard, students must take an average of one Core per semester (disregarding for simplicity's sake double-counting Cores, full-year Cores and the large science courses that count for Core credit). This semester, 39 courses are offered in the Core Curriculum. This means--given 6400 undergraduates--that the average Core course will have 164 students...
...court judge gave that permission, but the Missouri Supreme Court, affirming "the sanctity of life," reversed the ruling. Now the U.S. high court must consider whether the federal Constitution's liberty guarantees, and the privacy rights they imply, include a right to be starved to death for mercy's sake...
During a game against Sweden, Whyte crunched an opponent into the boards with a clean check that broke the Swede's collarbone. At 5-ft., 6-in., no one is going to confuse Whyte with Kevan Melrose, but for safety's sake, opponents better start ducking when they see number 10 coming...