Word: birthrights
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...trying to build up Humphrey. He has let us liberals down; we won't forget it. He has sold out to expediency, tossed away his birthright for a mess of Administration pottage, even spews out the Viet Nam lump with a smile...
Bartering is the world's oldest method of doing business; Esau, one of its early practitioners, swapped his birthright for a mess of pottage. Though the easy flow of money and credit has long since ruled out any need for widespread swapping, the surprising fact is that bartering survives in today's sophisticated international trade. It is even undergoing something of a revival as more nations sign trade agreements to exchange yearly quotas of goods and commodities with one another; more than 490 such agreements are now in force. About 20 companies, mostly in Switzerland, Holland and Britain...
...English subtitles (plus a peppering of Anglo-Saxon vulgarisms), the film is mainly distinguished for acting untouched by the naive semiprofessionalism that blights many a small-budget movie. Topping the cast is Jaime Sánchez as Chico, a well-to-do but restless cat who sums up his birthright by stating his birthplace: "102nd and Lexington...
...state, where the attitude toward the Governor has been one of adulation, there was a sharp change. "I voted for our Governor" Mrs. Raymond A. Busier wrote the Montgomery Advertiser, "but if I can be forgiven, I'll never again. Wake up Alabamians, before you sell your birthright for a mess of pottage." State Representative Kenneth Ingram protested in the Birmingham News that he had previously considered Wallace "a champion of conservatism, but now I find that he is advocating what appears to me to be liberalization of our very own Alabama constitution...
Without it there can be no life, and down through the ages man has accepted the water around him as a gift from God-a birthright to be squandered or saved according to the demands of circumstance. Confident of an unending supply from earth's mighty rivers and timeless seas, man has wasted water and polluted it. Parched by unpredictable droughts, he has migrated thousands of miles to slake his thirst. He has fought over it since ancient times: Sennacherib of Assyria revenged himself on Babylon by dumping debris in the city's canals; today armed Arabs...