Word: sakes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TIME: Are you all about female empowerment? Kyoko: We want to give women a hint of what it's like to think another way. Take relationships. In Japan, many women are with a man just for the sake of being with a man. They depend on the man to complete themselves. But who knows when the man will leave? This kind of behavior is unthinkable for us. We get fan letters from women saying we've changed their lives, now they're finally able to get a divorce or whatever. We derive energy from this, like radio waves...
Postponing Assassins in the short term makes sense, as I doubt there is a depressed financial market for the show at the present, and, certainly, no producer can be compelled to lose money, even for the sake of promoting a brilliant piece of theater...
...Archery World Championship held two weeks ago in Beijing, four male archers suddenly quit. The Korean Archery Association responded by barring them from international competition for periods ranging from one to five years. Said Jung Pil Woo, head coach of the women's team: "We reprimanded them for the sake of the future of Korean archery...
...government was set up to ensure that no one man can control the national agenda, as many Americans would have it right now. If we are truly patriotic, we will welcome debate on Capitol Hill and allow our democratic institutions to work properly, not hinder them for the sake of a necessarily ephemeral national unity...
...even led it to make overtures to other states that stand accused of supporting terrorism: Iran and Syria both come to mind. The trouble is that, while the governments of these nations may be willing to ignore previously cold relations with the U.S. or to cooperate for the sake of debt relief and favor in the eyes of the world’s only superpower, their citizens often are not. Protests and violence at the prospect of U.S. military action against Afghanistan often occur in these countries, and images of individuals celebrating the attacks against America should remain emblazoned...