Word: owes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colonialism, and since that issue is fast liquidating itself, it has become necessary to invent "neocolonialism" to keep it going. At the same time they plainly feel, as became clear at last year's meeting of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), that the "neocolonial" powers owe them a living through aid and better trade terms...
Into the Pot. Only some 5% of the 4,000 languages spoken today have managed the arduous transition to writing -a trip that all but the few that still use ideograms, like Chinese, owe to the Semitic tribes who traded with Athens 27 centuries ago. The Semites had a phonetic script so much more resourceful than the Greeks' own that it was promptly adopted. From Greece this alphabet spread to Rome, and from there Rome's conquering legions took it all over Europe, including England...
...three owe their fortune to some savvy progenitors. Their late father, William, founded the tire company 50 years ago with $50,000 that he had borrowed from their grandfather, a wealthy merchant. William started diversifying almost by accident; in 1940 he bought a radio station as a gift for a fourth son -now in private business in Florida-who was not interested in tires. Soon William began acquiring stations of his own. In 1955 he added Hollywood's RKO complex-which he bought from Howard Hughes for $25 million-and formed RKO General, a subsidiary that accounted for about...
...world electronics market will be hitched to the inward-looking Europe so dear to Charles de Gaulle. Fighting hard to prevent this, RCA has sent a mobile color TV studio rolling into Britain, Finland, Sweden, France, Germany and Russia. Whatever Europe does about color television will apparently owe as much to cold war politics as to technology...
...code extends beyond Black Muslims--deep into the Negro community. It is a set of rules which designates the political and religious leaders of the community and defines the loyalty and respect which individuals owe to these leaders. The "code" allows Adam Clayton Powell (D.N.Y.) and William Dawson (D-III.) to be re-elected year after year and keeps Negro ministers in their pulpits until they are carried to the funeral parlor...