Word: owings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...following post-showpatter: "I hope you enjoyed the BBC broadcast wejust heard. And I hope you realize that that theBBC charges us hundreds of thousands of dollars tosubscribe to their services. Now weeeeeee spendthat money for that service because youuuuu toldus youuuuu wanted it. Weeeeee take that risk, andyouuuu owe it to us to make those telephonesring...
...took Ec 10, and the Gospel according toProfessor Feldstein says I don't owe WBURanything. And according to the doctrines ofclassical economics, I'm certainly not going tothrow my hard-earned money away when I can let myfellow listeners do it instead...
Even renting out depository space at another institution and putting all displaced volumes in that depository would be preferable to complete inaccessibility. The current plan would weaken a library system that is the envy of the world. We owe it to our students and others who rely on this resource to keep it fully accessible...
...working poor. For example, a worker with two or more qualifying children who earns less than $25,296 a year, is eligible for an earned-income credit of as much as $2,528. The credit operates as a sort of "negative tax," available to workers too poor to owe income tax and is intended to make work more attractive than welfare. The credit, however, has been susceptible to fraud. In order to catch the cheats, the irs has also punished honest taxpayers. Low-income workers for whom the earned-income refund is the biggest chunk of cash they...
Supermodels owe their heightened visibility and success to a culture continually ravenous for new kinds of celebrities. Many observers argue that supermodels have topped movie stars on the fame hierarchy because they possess an ethereal allure missing since the '40s and '50s. "I couldn't ever picture Joan Crawford going to the supermarket to buy soap," notes Pauline Bernatchez, who runs the 24-year-old Parisian modeling agency Pauline's, "but I could easily envision Meryl Streep doing it with her children. Models seem more untouchable. People need glamour; they need to dream." Says designer Isaac Mizrahi: "When my mother...