Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems that even time can't kill that dreaded game. Thanks to the College's recent decision to halve the maximum size of first-year blocking groups, our upperclass Houses may now become the newest site for mingling for its own sake...
...insist their struggles are behind them. "I have little doubt that there will be a number of issues on which we will disagree," says Leakey. "Sometimes he will concede, and sometimes I will concede, but hopefully it will be a concession based on argument, not might." For the sake of the country, Kenyans hope the two can learn to get along...
...would be one thing if the purpose of this rigmarole actually were to make sure students were qualified before giving them positions of responsibility. But as often as not, the process is unnecessary; it exists for its own sake, to give us another chance to evaluate, interview, rank, vet, accept and reject one another. Just like the old days...
...just for the sake of argument, suppose raising IQ didn't require any permanent, expensive genetic engineering at all. Scientists are studying brain-boosting compounds. Suppose they found something as cheap and easy as aspirin; one pill and you wake up the next morning a little bit brighter. Who could argue with that...
...teenagers in America, and the development of the modern high school, while questioning some of our presumptions about "the noble savage in blue jeans, the future in your face." Hine challenges the idea that teenagers should automatically be held back in their schooling, employment and sexual development for the sake of uniformity. Get ready for an even greater impact of the high school generation, writes Hine. "In the first decade of the 21st century, America can anticipate the largest generation of teenagers in its history, one even larger than the baby-boomer generation that entered its teens four decades...