Word: owings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accelerated in Europe by the Third World's pervasive contempt for the West. Aron believes that the tendency of Africans and Latin Americans to blame the persistence of poverty on colonialism is a major victory of the Marxist-Leninists. He writes: "The propaganda message is that the Europeans owe their prosperity not to their own work but to the exploitation of the poor; imperialists, even when they withdraw from all their possessions, are still the opponents of the developing world...
Despite the desperation surrounding a play in trouble, doctors have strict rules of courtesy. "The first thing you find out is if the author knows that someone is being brought in," says Larry Gelbart (Sly Fox), whose efforts on Ballroom were not enough to keep it from closing. "You owe that to a colleague." Jerome Robbins notes ruefully, "I've needed help...
...gracefully oldtime, never turns antique. She likes Van Morrison, Marvin Gaye and Laura Nyro, but she also talks of Peggy Lee and Sarah Vaughan with respect, performs a stops-out version of an old Louis Prima tune to close out her concerts. Her songs have their origins in, and owe a friendly debt to, the work of such all-night-joint bards as Tom Waits. Chuck E. is a real character, a buddy of Waits' and of Rickie Lee's who has now become, according to the woman who immortalized him, "king of the sidewalk, the most popular...
...Some say it's 20 ft. a year, but I have not seen 20 ft. disappear since 1955, when I started coming here. It's a problem no one can forecast. If I hire competent engineers and architects for a condominium, I don't think I owe any responsibility to a buyer 20 years later as long as I've disclosed to him the possible problems...
Nobody seems to have any idea how much taxes he pays in a year, Bloch finds. All each person knows is what is withheld from every paycheck. The loudest complaint is that the IRS tables did not provide for enough withholding in 1978, so many taxpayers still owe the Government money, and that hurts. Some people simply do not file returns and hope that the IRS does not catch them...