Word: owed
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...among its industrialists. It was merely a place to house the workers who ran the silk factories, and the industrialists fought every attempt to improve or beautify the town. Jacob Rogers of Rogers Locomotives declined to donate a small patch of land for the city hospital. "I don't owe anything to Paterson," he said...
...fictionalize his accounts. Fantasy perhaps, but with the publication of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, we have at last some substantiation that Watson, at least, actually lived--and died in 1940--and that Doyle was only the distracted doctor and inoffensive scribbler we'd like him to be. We owe these revelations to Nicholas Meyer (evidently a hack on the rise, he wrote 400 film reviews for his college paper) who had the good fortune to be in the right place when Watson's last manuscript surfaced in a London attic 31 years after it left Dr. Watson's control...
...have tried my best to make a clear distinction. Greek bitterness is not aimed against the American people, the American legislative bodies or the American press. On the contrary, we owe them gratitude. It is aimed against the American Administration, both for its support of the dictatorship and for its pro-Turkey attitude in the Cyprus drama...
...admissions merger would bring considerable pressure for corporate merger. Radcliffe is, after all, an undergraduate college, and if it were to lose its admissions office its only undergraduate-related branch would be the OWE. The Joint Policy Committee may be against full merger at the moment, but whatever it does this year will probably end up as a series of stop gap measures paving the way to merger. The University cannot keep inching Harvard and Radcliffe closer together while avoiding merger forever...
...fact, this summer the University announced a major expansion in the DAS, and changed its name to the Harvard Institute for International Development. The change is likely to mean a significant enlargement of Harvard's role abroad, in ways that may owe something to those heady days of a few years...