Word: owings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...owe it all to 'Team Thesis' and my roommates," said Peter T. Lattman '92. "They let me do my [thesis] work while they played Nintendo all night...
THIS IS NOT to say that Smulyan and other owners owe all their financial difficulties to the outrageous demands of players. Among the expenses that Smulyan has attributed to the Mariners when calculating his "losses" are a chartered plane to take him from Indianapolis to "home" games (Arakawa could take the bus) and payments he is still making on the loan that financed his purchase of the team in the first place. Smulyan is not losing money--he is just not making as much as he wants as quickly as he had hoped...
...Japan, debts are neither readily forgotten nor easily repaid. The Japanese acknowledge the enormous debt they owe America for the benevolence of the post-World War II occupation and for the nurturing and protection the U.S. has provided Japan ever since. As Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa put it in a speech two weeks ago, "It is no exaggeration to say that Japan could not have achieved its postwar prosperity had it not been for the good-hearted support of the U.S." Older Japanese in particular feel the need to repay that debt, especially now that...
...courageous leader who defied the old Russian saying, "The czar wishes but the boyars will not allow." Gorbachev imposed his will on the boyars. He built a totally new view of international ethics which debunked the theories of realists like Henry Kissinger, who claim that all we owe foreigners is the minimal obligation of preserving the order that avoids the chaos leading to nuclear war. Instead of pursuing that amoral policy, Gorbachev led the world through one of the most important changes in the course of history with a minimum of blood loss...
...need is a shot," he said. "I feel like I owe it to myself...