Word: depend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plympton Street swing open at 7:30 tonight, the CRIMSON Business Board will welcome as candidates any second term Freshmen, Sophomores, and especially qualified first term Juniors. The Business Board forms the financial backbone of the paper: therefore, the activities of the other boards of the paper depend in great measure upon the quantity of revenues...
...dictum was never more valid than in 1947, when, as seldom in history, the world's military strength was divided between two great powers. Could Marshall depend on Eisenhower, his Air Forces and his Army to make it clear that the U.S. is "at all times ready for war?" Three years ago, on Dday, facing the coast of Normandy, Ike Eisenhower commanded the mightiest military force of men, guns, ships, and planes in history, and most of it was U.S. strength. Not even the most extreme of U.S. military now contend that the U.S. should still have such...
...sent a four-man team to Poland. He conceded that the bank's charter forbids political considerations in making loans. But Soviet-dominated Poland's politics are bound to affect the bank's decision on whether she can repay a loan. Moreover, since the bank will depend almost entirely on American investors for its new capital, it will have to persuade them of the soundness of its risks. At best, the bank in the next twelve months can provide no more than $1 billion for world reconstruction...
History shows that political freedom and economic progress depend upon diffusion of power and multiplication of foci of energy and drive-neither attainable under collectivism...
Workers who were once beholden to their bosses were not much more than industrial serfs, says Boyer. They lived in fear and depended on the big smile and the well-shined shoe for their future. Now they depend on their union, which means that they depend on themselves. This change in the workers' mentality is the democratic dynamic of our time. Some day historians will note the change, and this skillfully written book will be one of their sources...