Word: owed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decriminalization bill is the nominal brainchild of State Reps. John E. Murphy Jr. and Francis W. Hatch Jr. '46. While similar versions of the bill have been submitted to the legislature in the past, Hatch readily acknowledges the debt that his co-sponsor and he owe to the pioneering Oregon law. "We swiped the traffic ticket approach," Hatsh says, adding "it really doesn't hurt to plagiarize. If another state has an intelligent approach to the problem, you have all the preliminary work done. If you have a roughly similar bill, the experience of that state is directly applicable...
Purist Approach. Carter's initial grace period with official Washington, if there ever was one, is unmistakably over. The special interests, to whom Carter insists he does not owe a thing, are zeroing in on the White House. Trade-offs and bargains, which Carter does not like, are beginning to be an unavoidable part of his life. "When you start putting forth legislation,"' the President will observe later in the day, "it's hard to say when you should deviate from the purist approach and how much deviation is too much...
...proliferation of the fight game is something we owe not to Ali or Howard Cosell, but to the 1976 Olympics. For it was in Montreal that men such as Sugar Ray Leonard, Howard Davis and Leon Spinks first received national attention and adoration--feelings they regenerated by turning professional...
...Interior Secretary, Jack Horton is back on his 10,000-acre ranch in the foothills of Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains. He rises as early as 4 a.m. to tend his 400 Herefords, but also hopes to use his Washington experience as an environmental consultant. Says he: "You owe the world much more than to just go back and lock yourself up on a ranch...
...economic il literacy. Some live up to the limit of incomes that are suddenly reduced by layoffs or illness. Many ignore the extent to which inflation is reducing their ability to charge luxuries by raising the price of necessities. Most delinquent debtors never even add up what they owe until they are forced to, and then they are stunned by the totals. When Kevin White, 33, a fireman, and his wife Sharon, 30, a dental assistant, turned to the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater New York in 1975, Sharon thought they owed about $5,000 to $8,000; Kevin...