Word: depend
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...asked me why I'm declaring my candidacy in this magazine when the leaders I'm following have announced theirs on glitzy websites. Well, the painful truth is, the spot I wanted, Amazon.com was already taken--by a special-interest group, no doubt. When I'm President, you can depend on me to roll up my sleeves and do something about that...
...million Number of people who depend on the Yellow River as their major source of water...
...make scientific headway in a topic as tangled as consciousness, it helps to clear away some red herrings. Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home. Nor can consciousness be equated with self-awareness. At times we have all lost ourselves in music, exercise or sensual pleasure, but that is different from being knocked out cold...
...channel seems hampered more by limited means than by unseemly political influence. It managed to get a team of reporters and producers off to Somalia to cover the war there, but generally has to depend heavily on news agency correspondents or freelancers. There is still an air of improvisation on the set and frequently on the screen, which features more people talking about the news than it does innovative news-gathering. On the other hand, Gosset has kept his anchor spot for the channel's main talk show, and Saint-Paul, his replacement, insists he's still pushing for journalistic...
...modern logistics, Red Cross volunteers distributed nets to more than half the households of Togo in 2004 and Niger in 2005 in a matter of a few days in each country. That successful delivery model should be replicated across Africa, by 2010 if not earlier, but this will depend on mobilizing the needed resources...