Word: indebtedness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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It may seem odd that the Secretary of the Treasury of the richest nation on earth is obsessed with poverty. But Larry Summers has used his stint in government not only to boost the U.S. economy but also to push policies designed to eradicate global poverty. Top on his list...
Leaving important public-policy decisions to elected branches might make sense, trial lawyers say, if those branches did their jobs. But they are so indebted to special interests--including Big Business and the National Rifle Association--that they tend to stay gridlocked. After the shooting rampages at Columbine and elsewhere...
She checked her watch. 3:30 a.m. Less than three days until Commencement, when they would join the company of educated and indebted men and women. Adult men and women, with harder features and eyes more warm than the teenagers with poodle hair who had eaten here almost four years...
Considering what she has given to the softball program over the past four years, Harvard should be indebted to her for years, but Abeles is incredibly grateful what softball has contributed to her life. Deborah carries herself with the same lack of pretension as your average freshman.
It isn't fair. It isn't natural. Kids are not supposed to be indebted to us, they're supposed to get loose of us. That's why nature created those powerful hormones that make them glare at us and slam doors. Nature isn't interested in privacy or diversity...