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...Democratic Connecticut Congressman who was not even a member of the party until a couple of weeks before he filed in 1974, remarks with some chagrin: "We get to Washington and we're not prone to look for leadership the way they used to. We don't owe anybody anything." With several hundred different ideas caroming around the Capitol about how to handle energy or inflation, it is difficult to make policy. It is also much harder for the man in the White House to use party discipline to bring Congressmen into line behind his program. Jimmy Carter...
There isn't a musician writing or playing rock 'n' roll today who does not owe him, not a songwriter who hasn't passed through-even sometimes settled in-territory that Dylan explored and posted years ago. All Dylan has been collecting on his debts lately, however, is puzzled, sometimes indifferent concert audiences and a critical bloodying for his latest album, Street-Legal...
...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...
Students who owe no further payments to the University may pick up refunds for the meal tax at Homer's office...
...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...