Word: owing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even if sex proved to be genetically unnecessary, it still wouldn't be a total waste of energy. It is to sex, after all, that we owe most of the things we consider aesthetically appealing in nature. If it were not for sex, there would be no blossoms and no birdsong. A flower-filled meadow resounding with the dawn chorus of songbirds is actually a scene of frenzied sexual competition. Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist at University College London, has pointed out that everything extravagant about human life, from poetry to fast cars, is rooted in sexual one-upmanship...
...owe it all to them--my principles, my morals, my hockey game...
Bush provided fresh contrasts to McCain last week. While McCain blasted fellow Republican Pat Buchanan for arguing that America did not have to take on Hitler, Bush appeased him, explaining that "I need all the votes" he could get. While McCain says he is running "because I owe America more than she has ever owed me," Bush sometimes seems motivated by a need to redeem his father's defeat. He keeps bringing it up in a way that suggests it has been his life's deepest wound. Last Wednesday he said that Buchanan's 1992 candidacy had had a role...
...growing number of U.S. and European companies that have begun issuing annual reports that describe not only their financial performance but also details about their environmental and social or ethical behavior. This so-called triple-bottom-line exercise in corporate citizenship is based on the belief that companies owe stakeholders--customers, employees, activist groups, the public--an annual warts-and-all airing of their environmental and societal records, just like the flow of financial data they must provide to shareholders. But since environmental or ethical misdeeds can lead to profit-hammering headlines, the extra information...
Teaching hospitals operate as non-profits and give charity care as well as educate a new generation of doctors. Rapid advancement in science and technology claim much of the responsibility for the economic prosperity and the budget surplus Congress is presently enjoying, and much of that advancement may owe its origin to funding decisions made decades ago. University research funded by the Defense Department developed the protocols that made the Internet possible and may have fundamentally changed the nature of the economy. It would be foolish to starve the next decades of similar innovation in other fields to achieve arbitrary...