Word: owed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech read by personal envey Sayed Ahmed Marei. Sadat said he began his peace intiative "because I am convinced that we owe it to this generation not to leave a stone unturned in our pursuit of peace...
...have never been as hotly debated or as important as now. Last October Congress passed the Omnibus Judgeship Act, creating 152 new federal judgeships, the largest one-shot increase ever. Given normal turnover on the bench, half of the nation's 643 federal appeals and district judges will owe their jobs to Carter by the end of his term in 1980. Says Leonard Janofsky, American Bar Association president-elect: "No modern American President has had such an opportunity to mold the shape and character of the law in our justice system...
...Democratic Connecticut Congressman who was not even a member of the party until a couple of weeks before he filed in 1974, remarks with some chagrin: "We get to Washington and we're not prone to look for leadership the way they used to. We don't owe anybody anything." With several hundred different ideas caroming around the Capitol about how to handle energy or inflation, it is difficult to make policy. It is also much harder for the man in the White House to use party discipline to bring Congressmen into line behind his program. Jimmy Carter...
...workable forms. When practically every politician is a free agent, there is a tendency toward the anarchic, which may be a perfect political reflection of a narcissistic decade. In the absence of party loyalty, officeholders may find it easier to exercise their integrity, although of course they may also owe fealty to some private lobby. In either case, they tend to lose the talent for compromise and concerted effort. Single-issue zealotry, which is rewarded in the new enlarged primary system, can contaminate the entire political process...
There isn't a musician writing or playing rock 'n' roll today who does not owe him, not a songwriter who hasn't passed through-even sometimes settled in-territory that Dylan explored and posted years ago. All Dylan has been collecting on his debts lately, however, is puzzled, sometimes indifferent concert audiences and a critical bloodying for his latest album, Street-Legal...