Word: sakes
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Lots of us—after pledging to stop procrastinating, and to never again combine sake bombs and Jell-O shots—began 2005 with a resolution for our country: May the New Year be a better year for kids that have nowhere to go after school. May the New Year be a better year for working families that can’t afford health insurance. May the New Year be a better year for soldiers whose parents have to take out a loan to send them body armor in Iraq...
...even less. Sure, students will have the opportunity to apply for a seat in J-Term seminars four times more selective than the most popular of freshman seminars, but this is a dubious fair trade for the student body. Before Harvard loosens up term-time teaching requirements for the sake of making J-Term viable, we vehemently urge adequate consideration of its negative impact on the majority of undergraduates...
...speaking from his home in Crawford, Texas, three days after the earthquake. Why the delay? Because, White House aides say, the President does not like to "showboat" by speaking too soon after events like this. "He didn't want to go out there and just speak for speaking's sake," says an aide. Democrats made hay of Bush's delayed response and ridiculed the Administration's initial pledge, suggesting that some of the $18 billion earmarked for Iraq reconstruction be diverted to help tsunami victims. The White House said it was waiting for assessments of the damage, and Bush pointed...
...Number of animals killed for the sake of my material comfort: I’d rather not calculate...
...teaching technique for technique’s sake is over. We need to ask what is the pedagogy of the 21st century, not the 20th…I don’t want to create a pond of mini-me?...