Word: owing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the new men owe their eminence to Nixon, by and large; they lack powerful constituencies to fall back on if they happen to run afoul of the President. The most important of the jobs goes to Boston Brahmin Elliot Richardson, who moved from HEW to Secretary of Defense, a post that will fully test his vaunted administrative skills. A combination of shrewdness and steadfastness under fire is expected to pull him through. He sees eye to eye with Henry Kissinger and is not likely to offer any rebuffs on foreign policy. While he lacks the clubby relations with...
...some H-shaped houses, he separated the daytime areas-kitchen, dining and living rooms-from bedrooms by a central hall. In his rectangular "long" houses, a central kitchen and bathrooms divide living from sleeping quarters. Hardly a small modern house now exists in the U.S. that does not owe some debt to Breuer's sensitivity to human habit...
...might be months before it (the case) comes to a hearing," Loss said. "He's asking for around $100,000, and we don't think we owe him anything...
...years old, and we intend to celebrate. We are planning a series of events for the months ahead-some small and rather personal and sentimental, others on a bigger scale. In all, we hope to reach-a lot of people .to whom we owe thanks-not only our working colleagues within the company but also the legions of readers arid believers who through the years have helped us grow...
...year," says Economic Minister Pham Kim Ngoc, "but after that, if there's not a solution or Congress doesn't understand the need for economic aid, it will be serious." Such bleak forecasts, of course, are nothing new in Saigon. Yet even high government officials, who owe a large share of their remaining credibility to the hope of eventual prosperity in South Viet Nam, seem to realize that they cannot allow the downward economic spiral to continue for long...