Word: sakes
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...involved in Live Aid because it's more than money, it's music...but it is also a demonstration to the politicians and policymakers that men, women and children will not walk by other men, women and children as they lie, bellies swollen, starving to death for the sake of a cup of grain and some water...
...Carter explains: "All too often companies go out there with products they think are going to completely kill the market -- and they don't. They find it's technology for the sake...
...Cold War had no fixed duration. Some University resources already went toward defense research, Conant said, but professors and administrators should continue to work on education for its own sake, as well. The end of World War II left Conant free to pursue purely educational initiatives--despite what he called the "grisly business" of world mobilization...
...keep the cease-fire alive, because Arafat is aware that without this cease-fire he will be attacked by the Israelis. So on the top of his priorities is keeping the Israelis away from him. He is trying to convince his factions (including the radical factions) that for the sake of the interests of the Palestinians we need to keep the cease-fire. To what extent he is going to convince them, I don't know...
...confused, particularly if they live outside the U.K. But the parts of the book you could call "criticism," including a history of the graphic novel, are refreshingly opinionated. In between Campbell includes personal anecdotes of things both vastly important (marriage, birth) or utterly trivial, but memorable for their own sake (watermelon-sized holes in the curtains). Ultimately it reads with the voice of a friend sitting at the bar after his fifth pint, though admittedly this has its rambling downside as well...