Word: owe
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...hours poring over polling data from around the country. No cell phones or Internet connections will be allowed, and the group will not emerge until 5 p.m. E.T. to share what they have learned with their bosses. These people are part of the National Election Pool (NEP) - and they owe their monastic retreat to a long-running debate on how early election reports can affect the outcome of a race...
...world, a small group of media representatives will spend hours poring over polling data from around the country. No cell phones or Internet connections will be allowed, and the group will not emerge until 5 p.m. E.T. These people are part of the National Election Pool (NEP)--and they owe their monastic retreat to a long-running debate on how early election reports can affect the outcome of a race...
Distressed sellers are the biggest problem. According to the National Association of Realtors, nearly 40% of all houses on the market today are owned by sellers who are either behind on their mortgage or owe more than their house is worth. Banks have to approve deals in which the sale price is below the mortgage owed, often called short sales, and bankers are not typically eager to go for such sales because they result in losses for the lender. Realtors, even the ones who know how to work their contacts at banks, say it takes at least two months...
...wins, Obama may partly owe the presidency to McCain's claim that our economic fundamentals are strong. But once in office, the winner's job will be made a lot easier if it turns out, as seems likely, that McCain was right...
...Greek drama that those playwrights emulated—or conspicuously shunned. In Dante or Dryden or Tennyson, one can sense the palpable presence of Vergil. To disembody literature from the larger tradition of which the authors were knowingly partaking would appear an artificial and arbitrary extraction.Most importantly, perhaps, we owe our understanding of philosophy to the Greeks who developed it and the Latins who preserved it for us somewhat intact. The metaphysics and natural science first discoursed upon in Plato’s Academy and Aristotles’s Lyceum laid the basis for modern rational thought and technological progress...