Word: depend
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...there are empty cupboards, you want to fill them,” Mary says. Antoinette uses her publishing ties to teach children about good nutrition. She is an independent woman and believes that children shouldn’t depend on their parents, but learn how to keep themselves healthy...
...supposed to. I didn’t want to have to explain myself. I didn’t want to be ignored or told I wasn’t good enough. I didn’t want to risk failure. I didn’t want to depend on anyone. I didn’t want people to love only the picture-perfect version of me. I didn’t want my resume or my ethnicity or my religious background to be the sole definition of who I was. So I spent the next several years rebelling...
...chiefs have had to decide whether they want to help. The request puts them in a difficult position. Many are responsible for communities with sizable Middle Eastern populations. The police?s relationship with that community makes a big difference. Local cops have to interact with the community daily - they depend on them for tips, information and cooperation...
...intimate advising system,” but she has found the advising system “to be every bit as impersonal.” As a concentrator in economics—one of Harvard’s largest departments—Huang has learned to depend on word-of-mouth, friends and upperclass students. This get-it-yourself attitude stems from her advising at Cornell. “I was assigned a faculty and a student advisor. My faculty advisor was not very helpful. He just signed my forms. I think we met once during the academic year...
When things go bad at this time of year, they go very bad. Airlines depend on the holidays, slogging through cheerless Octobers, waiting for the full planes, and often full fares, of Thanksgiving and Christmas. But this season, Americans are more reluctant to fly than at any time in recent memory. Would-be flyers are worried not only about security, delays and possible strandings; some also wonder whether the airline they've paid for a Christmas ticket will be in business when it comes time to depart. Here are some of the questions travelers are asking...