Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yoshie, pinning the frail old woman to the floor. As fire began roaring through the neighborhood, father and daughter struggled frantically to free her, without success. ``I'm going to stay here,'' her father said, but Emiko pleaded, ``You can't, father. You must live, for mother's sake!'' Emiko pulled him out of the house seconds before it was engulfed in flames. The photograph was taken the following day, when Emiko returned to sift through the ashes for fragments of bone, all that was left of her mother's body...
...unwanted; fellatio has begun before he starts emitting virginal squeaks of protest. As the movie develops, we are meant to perceive a causal link between Meredith's sexual voraciousness and her incomprehensible corporate schemings. Eventually they begin to feel like a lot of plotting for plotting's sake, something to do for the second half of what would otherwise have been a very short and simple tale...
From here on, the memories cut too close to be laughed at with such insouciance. Take the weird belief of the 1980s in mergers for their own sake, irrespective of what was being merged-and even if the merger could be accomplished only by borrowing so many billions as to crush the merged company under a mountain of debt. We are still living with the consequences. The need to undo some mergers helped launch the downsizing mania that has spawned a crazy credo: companies exist not for the purpose of producing goods and services, nor even maximizing profits...
...terrifying and potentially enduring problem. ``You see students for whom the system has failed, and that's what enrages me,'' says Susan McCray, a teacher at Boston's urban Fenway Middle College High School, who struggles daily to convince her students that learning can be thrilling for its own sake--as well as a ticket to a better life. ``It has a real effect on real lives...
...husband driving ahead of her on a motorcycle loaded with clothing. ``We're worried that our house might not survive another strong quake.'' An elderly man stayed put, sitting in front of his shattered house, holding a flask. ``Everything is gone,'' he said. ``What can you do except sip sake and smile...