Word: sakes
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...pity Doris Day is not around to play Palin in the inevitable biopic. Picture the scene in the Boeing as she is sworn in on the way to the White House. The dream scene for America's hockey moms and B-movie fans. Please, America, for the sake of the free world in complex and troubled times - get real! Brenda Cherwell, BEVERLEY, ENGLAND
...a.k.a. when things were absurdly good on Wall Street—the idea of using expensive labor to make traditionally cheap goods was possible because a large number of people were willing to pay over the “Made in China” price for the sake of a moral gimmick. Now that prices are rising across the board, particularly for necessities like gas and food, people are far more likely to drop morals in favor of cheaper, foreign-produced products.It’s fairly reasonable to expect that American Apparel’s retail business will...
Resistance to open education is not the only instance of the University denying free access to its resources in part, at least, for the sake of revenue. Just take a look at the Ivy League’s Borrow Direct interlibrary loan program in which all the Ivies—except Harvard—take part, despite the fact that Harvard has the fourth largest library collection in the world. Although Harvard does participate in a type of ILL program, it usually slaps charges onto the loans...
...pink covers. But you know who some of the writers were in that Fantastic Library? Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami, Stanislaw Lem, Julio Cortázar and others. Some of the most diverse, hard to categorize writers around. But for convenience’s sake, they were all given pink covers. Booksellers in Germany told me that people came into their stores and literally turned away when they saw those pink books because they “didn’t read science fiction.” Can you imagine how many readers missed...
...urgently need a Kyoto protocol to address financial climate change, fight the greed-house effect and reverse the decline of ethics. We must curtail the emissions of toxic investment funds and promote and reward the development of sound financial products for the sake of global economic health. Ray Moser, Lausanne, Switzerland...