Word: dependability
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...enduring is this storytelling need that it shapes nearly every human endeavor. Businesses depend on the stories told of past failures and successes, and on the myth of the mission of the company. In medicine, doctors increasingly rely on a patient's narrative of the progress of an ailment, which is inevitably more nuanced and useful than the data of machines. In law, the same thing. Every court case is a competition of tales told by the prosecutor and defense attorney; the jury picks the one it likes best...
...risky move to depend heavily on six incoming forwards to invigorate offensive production, especially considering that none have any Division I experience. But with no snipers ranked in the top 50 in the league, and a pitiful average of just over 2 goals per game, Head Coach Roger Grillo is grasping at straws. To add insult to injury, Brown's only saving grace, goaltender Scott Stirling, was lost to graduation. However, Brian Ecklund was stellar between the pipes in the 6-0 win over the Saints. Just don't count on a trend...
...fact, the film reveals how much the media has come to depend on the "Oppo" research for material. Traditionally, newspaper journalists and TV producers have conducted independent research of charges made by a campaign. That has now dwindled, both due to news organizations being more and more stretched and because the media believes that the backfire effect on the campaigns would be far too devastating if the information provided were wrong...
...Carnahan herself may not leave them much of a choice, of course. She has made it clear she will not run a "traditional" campaign, implying that she will depend more on the momentum of her husband's campaign than on new strategies. And with only days remaining before Missourians make their decision, all that remains for Ashcroft to do is to pound out his message in the face of a much more powerful force...
Then we came to the Ministry of Defense at 5 p.m. The Prime Minister discussed how to implement the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement. I had to stay in the office until 11 p.m. I had to coordinate many things. We've done all this work, but it doesn't depend only on us. If the Palestinians don't implement their commitments the way we are implementing ours, then on Friday night we might find that the words were excellent but the implementation was a failure...