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Word: owing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter is a prime example--he doesn't owe anything to anybody. There aren't barons anymore, there's a huge public mass and nobody is tending the store...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Cost of Doing Nothing | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

Students who owe no further payments to the University may pick up refunds for the meal tax at Homer's office...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: Meal Tax Cut Will Diminish Board Charges | 9/21/1978 | See Source »

...taxpayer, and advocate the expenditure for water in Ironton of $2,000 a person, or over $20,000, for the benefit of the Merlis Broussard family of ten or more. The officials of Plaquemines Parish have always maintained fiscal responsibility and resisted irresponsible federal handouts, a duty they owe to their tax-paying citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 18, 1978 | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Fair Share says the requested payment represents 20 per cent of what Harvard would owe the city were it not tax exempt...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Mass Fair Share and Harvard | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...arena as the stock market and the gambling casino. Fortunes have changed hands at paperback auctions and reprint sales; unknowns have become overnight celebrities because of a paperback success. Authors like John Jakes (The Bastard), institutions like the Agatha Christie estate, romancers like Rosemary Rogers and Victoria Holt owe their millions to the modest little 7-in. by 4-in. volumes that decorate racks at drugstores, airports, supermarkets and book emporiums. No wonder that Mario Puzo's latest effort excited such frantic bidding. With paperback rights, the successful bidder would be able to saturate those ubiquitous wire racks?if Puzo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paperback Godfather | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

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