Word: owes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bronx elementary school in one of New York City's worst slum neighborhoods, Daisy has gained 18 months in reading skill after just nine months of study. Edward proudly volunteers to read to his class. Nicky has caught up to the reading level of his classmates. They owe their progress to Principal Julius Levine's unusual method of using music and dance to help kids learn to read...
...doing something." He believes that U.S. foreign policy should stress reliability, not experimentation. "The United States has too much mass and momentum to be a hummingbird, darting in and out of alluring blossoms to see what nectar can be had for the whims of the moment," he argues. "We owe it to ourselves as well as to the rest of the world to remain steady on course...
...professional who crosses an influential amateur. Villard tells of one career man, an irrepressible punster, who was hounded out of the service after his chief, a dairy tycoon, overheard him say mockingly: "All I have I owe to udders...
...INDIA. One of the largest recipients of U.S. help ($5.2 billion in economic funds, plus a secret amount in military aid), India is so big that U.S. aid is none too obvious. But the community farm projects, new schools, roads and modern agricultural methods all owe some small debt...
...means that any further U.N. peace-keeping operations will depend on either voluntary contributions or the U.N. budget. But most of them have been financed by these methods anyway−Korea and Cyprus by donations, Kashmir and Palestine by the U.N. treasury. The Russians, who, according to U.S. figures, owe $62 million in back assessments, have hinted that they would make a voluntary contribution to the deficit-troubled U.N. budget−provided, of course, that no one says they have to do it under Article...