Word: owing
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...those Gorbachev is promoting, does not have that option. If Husak denounces the bad old days and encourages reforms within his country, he will in effect be denouncing himself and the policies he has followed for years. The same is true of other East European leaders, all of whom owe their positions to Moscow. The reforms that Gorbachev is introducing in the Soviet Union thus may yet have their greatest and most dangerous resonance in Eastern Europe...
...does Chuck's riches-to-rags journey warrant a Fury Award? "What do you mean, asshole," quips Whitmore. "You owe me this...
Such programs, which owe something to Reagan's long emphasis on volunteerism, usually stress the idea that compassion is best implemented through cooperation of governments, businesses and private citizens. "We are really apolitical," says Bayard. "Fat government is the problem...
...exemplary one. The professor emeritus now regards political activism as a diversion from his primary interest in pedagogy. But the conclusion of his 20th book belies that claim: those who are indifferent to vital issues "owe the intellectual and cultural freedoms in which they luxuriate to the commitment and sacrifices of others." Even his extensive list of opponents would have to concede that the spirit of those "others" is crystallized in Sidney Hook's long, retributive and triumphantly out-of-step career...
Gonna: Paul Newman, The Color of Money. Because he's never won before, and they figure they owe him, and it's like voting for Reagan: if you didn't do it, you couldn't understand...