Word: owing
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Normal Turmoil. Equally capable of a lively scrap is Attorney General Brooke, who was the first to go after the nomination. Unlike most successful Negro politicians, who owe their election to predominantly Negro constituencies, Ed Brooke, 46, led the G.O.P. ticket in 1962 and 1964 in a state with a Negro population of under...
...conducted every day for a year," says Lewis, "an opportunity few conductors get. It was a time to make all the mistakes, a luxury you can't afford when you're conducting a major symphony. The fact that I'm at La Scala now I probably owe to the Seventh Army...
...breadth of Cavanagh's support is clearly a result of his spectacular record in office. After his upset victory four years ago over incumbent Louis Miriani, Cavanagh did not owe any political favors and was able to frame both definitions and solutions of the city's problems. He began by slapping an income tax on everyone who lived or worked in the city, and in four years the city has been able to turn a large deficit into a surplus, to increase municipal services, raise salaries (police salaries went up 25 per cent), and lower the property tax, Cavanagh...
...That's the new school" is a prideful remark that almost all Americans can make in showing off their communities. In thousands of cases, the shape, size and equipment of the new building owe everything to the little-known profession of school consulting. The best-known of the consultants is Nickolaus L. Engelhardt, 58, a nerveless, gruffly warm expert whose firm, the busiest in the nation, has helped 800 school boards mold the down-to-earth terms of education for millions of kids...
...cause of a great idea," he argues. "Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism." In terms of this philosophy, Moyers numbers among his heroes Disraeli, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and, not least, L.B.J.-"All that I am, I owe...