Word: sakes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...United States and reap the benefits of the lucrative careers that their Harvard degrees make accessible. But despite the spotlight that seems constantly trained on financial careers and the issue of brain drain, Harvard graduates are not all aspiring to be i-bankers for i-banking’s sake. A corresponding “brain gain” trend is gaining popularity. For some students, this means completing the cycle in the most direct fashion—leaving Cambridge to apply their education in their respective cities, states, or countries. But many other students, both American...
...expects “many or most” of the Gen Ed courses to be “well anchored in disciplines.” Addressing questions about Core categories bleeding naturally into Gen Ed ones, Harris said, “We hope not for change for the sake of change, but for change for the sake of improvement.” —Staff writer Johannah S. Cornblatt can be reached at jcornbl@fas.harvard...
...Conservatives can sound reasonable when comparing a system that allows private money to flood in to one that bans it entirely. If a heiress wants to spend her millions on an untested cancer treatment, this should not be prohibited for equality’s sake...
...There weren't too many notes for Steinmeier to miss, however. Supported by Muhabbet and seven background singers, Steinmeier and Kouchner merely had to repeat the word Deutschland (Germany) over and over again, with a slight variation at the end where the word for Kouchner's sake - whose French accent added some extra exotic charm to the song - was substituted with Frankreich (France...
...afternoon this summer, when my wife changed our 1-year-old and decried her "big poopy," our 2-year-old said from the next room: "Mom, it's Big Papi." Which is when I began trying, for the sake of the children, to embrace the Red Sox, whose clutch-hitting slugger, Big Papi, is impossible to dislike...