Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Research for the sake of research; arguably,we cannot afford it any longer," says Matthews."But that does not mean that basic research isout...
...Myers' sake, it's probably good [that he is stepping down]," said David L. K. Trumbull, chair of the Cambridge Republican City Committee...
...dyslexic heartthrob Stone Cates (Michael Sutton). Stone, a former street kid who dates likable Port Charles teen Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough), has just discovered that he is HIV positive. His illness will progress in what network press material describes as "real time" and will "not be rushed for the sake of accommodation." In other words, he'll stay sick as long as it helps the ratings...
...still life-the depiction of inanimate things, mainly food, drink and the vessels used to serve them-developed in Spain from the 16th century on. You might almost say that independent still life, painting that had no other purpose than to confront us with objects for their own sake, was a Hispanic reinvention. It was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but then lost, and it did not come back in force until the end of the 16th century in northern Italy, Holland and Spain, all of which were under the sway of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty...
...where acts produce serious moral consequences. Delia reads of her disappearance in the newspaper: "A slender, small-boned woman with curly fair or light-brown hair, Mrs. Grinstead stands 5'2" or possibly 5'5" and weighs either 90 or 110 pounds." Her understandable response: "For heaven's sake, hadn't anyone in her family ever looked at her?" And it doesn't take long before Delia acquires as many emotional obligations in her new life as she had been saddled with before...