Word: owing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...social studies and women's studies concentrations partly owe their existence to faculty support, Tan says...
...house I've offered to pay my daughter to take on jobs that I might otherwise pay an outsider to do, such as shoveling snow from the walk or raking leaves. But we're abandoning our allowance farce--after I repay the $257 I owe her. Fortunately for me, she has generously offered to let me retire that debt at low interest, in weekly installments--you know, kind of like an allowance...
Unlike many former Harvard students who owe their positions to the diplomas hanging on their walls, bulking up his resume was the last thing on Thorpe's mind when he enrolled...
...glitch in billing office software led Harvard to bill thousands of students for more tuition money than they actually owe this month...
These are both wonderful performances, with Baldwin's--coming on top of his superb movie-star parody in Notting Hill--opening up rich new territories for him to explore. But Outside Providence is full of glorious actor's moments, and may finally owe its success to them. One begins to think, If all these people believe so wholeheartedly in this enterprise, maybe I ought to as well...