Word: dependability
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Though all schools may feel a pressure to reform, recent changes put in place at each school depend on individual institutions’ cultures and histories rather than on a more universal precedent...
...whether the Faculty accept pushing the decision back to the middle of the sophomore year will depend in part on whether they have confidence in a revised plan for general advising that would then have to make room for first-semester sophomores in addition to first-years...
Mehlman said that candidates’ efforts at communicating their messages effectively will depend on their abilities “to have synergy” between different forms of media, such as print and the Internet...
...given that winning Iraqi hearts and minds has been a chief goal. And the shock of the murders of the Blackwater contractors threatened to ripple through the U.S.'s rebuilding effort, as the insurgents no doubt intended. Political stability in Iraq flows in part from economic progress, and both depend on security--the ability of civilians, Iraqis and foreigners alike, to get on with their lives without fear. "There's a tipping point," says a senior military official with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, "and it's clear the insurgents and the terrorists are trying to find that tipping...
...cynical as we have become, we depend on this naiveté for survival. That’s because cynicism is paralyzing. If you really believed that your car was going to get stolen no matter how loud a security system you installed, you’d never park it anywhere. Same thing with bikes: If you lived in constant fear of theft, you’d never ride it anywhere, and certainly not in Cambridge. And let’s not forget politics. After Watergate, Vietnam, Iran-Contra, Clinton-Lewinsky and dozens of other episodes of the now-syndicated television...