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His book argues not only that academic leftists, the heirs to the '60s New Left, need to become pro-American but also that they need to quit knocking heads with the heirs to the Old Left--the Cold War liberals--and vice versa.
The estate tax is imposed on assets passed on to heirs when someone dies.
Lawrence and his heirs, the colonial masters from Britain and France, left the Middle East with a complicated legacy of attraction and repulsion.
Maybe it would bring a smile to Casanova's lips to know that even now, although the world and the relative importance of the English language have changed so much, those of his countrymen who style themselves as his heirs retain his enthusiastic disregard for English spelling.
That writer's puritanical heirs today rail against the verb fax, even though they likely think nothing of cabling, telexing , or the dialing and ringing involved in telephoning .