Word: raison
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...speech seemed to lack a raison d'etre, there was a reason for it. The President's address was in part designed to showcase a symbolic centerpiece: the announcement that the U.S. was sending a black Ambassador to South Africa. The name of the nominee had already seeped out: Robert Brown, a North Carolina businessman and former Nixon staffer. But in further checking, the Administration became concerned about Brown's business association in the past with Alhaji Umaru Dikko, an exiled Nigerian leader who has been charged with embezzling millions of dollars. Brown was hastily persuaded by the White House...
...question is clearly not one of hiding information or of paternalism, but of refusing to support, either tacitly or overtly, a publication whose raison d'etre is the objectification of women and the exploitation of womankind. It is a question of integrity...
...zealous pursuit of weather-induced pleasure. The Yard is transformed from the major thoroughfare to and from lecture halls into a playground for the happy residents of Camp Harvard. When an exotic storm or heat wave hits, camp is in session. Enjoyment of weather-related activities becomes the sole raison d'etre, and passions, not goals, are given free reign...
...United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization by disgruntled staffers captured the general mood: "Enough is enough." One reason for the gloom: Britain last week affirmed that it will withdraw at year's end from the 160-member organization. Charging that UNESCO has become "harmfully politicized," Timothy Raison, Minister for Overseas Development, declared before the House of Commons: "We are determined that our support for the United Nations should be seen as support for effective and efficient organizations. Unfortunately, UNESCO is not such a body...
...daughter) has real spunk. As the bastard of the family, her father for her loose sexuality exiled MacRose. She and Charlie had been an item for years before an argument sent her to Mexico. When she returns to the family, it is to get Charlie back--her self-proclaimed raison d'etre...