Word: owes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Owe Russia $1,200, Hope...
...week regular season, and Conductor Mitchell gets to exercise his gently messianic streak with little lectures from the podium. Speaking for the city at large, the Washington Post greeted the new spring's debut with an editorial thought that was justifiably common in Washington. "All of us owe her the warmest thanks," it said...
...been anything but a thorough conservative in economics-and all the more so as Brazil's economic indicators have gone from bad to worse. Last year Brazil imported $100 million more than it could pay for with exports. Even if it imports nothing this year, it will still owe international creditors $800 million. New foreign capital dwindled from $266 million in 1961 to $62 million last year, frightened off by expropriations, political strife, and a restrictive remittance-of-profits bill. Brazil's gross national product, which averaged 7% growth a year for five years, slowed to an estimated...
Pastoral Scenes. British businessmen generally disapproved of Hailsham's waspish outburst, with its anti-American overtones. Hailsham thought that scientists should "still owe some responsibility" to the country where they were born and educated, rather than "make up for the deficiencies of the American high schools-to which, incidentally, they condemn their own offspring if they stay away too long." Businessmen are beginning to realize that U.S. recruiting is only part of the problem, and that there is a need for British business to do more about facilities, opportunities and pay. So far, however, the most spectacular program...
...pious atrocity infuriated Voltaire, and he sent off a blizzard of letters demanding details. "Ah, monsters," he cried in a letter to the judges of Calas, "you owe it to men to account for the blood of men." In a fury compounded of old age, pessimism, anticlericalism and a passion for justice, he summoned the attention of all Europe to the case, until at last Louis XV reversed the verdict against the Calases and, in so doing, crippled with shame the official persecution of the Huguenots...