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Clearly, Amsterdam owes its Booker to committee embarrassment over not tapping (or even shortlisting) Enduring Love . It's rather like the Nobel committee's honoring Hemingway for his vapid The Old Man and the Sea . This leads me to realize that "minor" is most often used as a synonym for "bad" or "short."
Italian has poverino . The fact that nebbish made it into English owes much to Jewish Borscht Belt comedians becoming '50s TV stars.
The U.S. (among other debtor nations) still owes the IMF $18 billion.
Martha, who does not want her last name used, believes she owes her very life to Legal Services and lawyer Laura Adjangba, who won her political asylum in the United States.
The Bradley surge also owes something to his fame.