Word: dependability
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...bees alarm both the bee industry and the agricultural community. In California, 21 fruit and nut crops and 20 vegetable crops, valued at about $2 billion, depend upon commercial hives for pollination. An apiary infested by the Africanized variety is much more difficult to handle and produces far less honey since these bees greedily consume most of it themselves...
Most people have at least one person on whom they can depend no matter what happens. There are slight tensions inherent in close friendship, but diehard loyalty will always bring that person running when they’re needed. Or will...
...interact with your friends? When the desperate times come—as they always do—who can you really depend on? “Mikey and Nicky”’s scary truth: it is impossible to know...
...rock 'n' roll, which needs urgency, immediacy, volume and balance. Movies and videos can heighten rock performances. Movies are seen in an enclosed environment, usually with better sound than comes from the tinny tiny speaker of a typical TV. Videos are at home on television, but they, like film, depend on editing to duplicate and convey the raw power of the music. About all a television director can do is cut back and forth between cameras. The medium does not catch the excitement of a performance, it just secondhands it along...
...refrain from coverage that could boost terrorists' morale. In an obvious reference to last month's televised news conferences and interviews with American hostages in Beirut, Thatcher observed, "We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend...