Word: dependability
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...slow to acknowledge the depth of the crisis. Still, even if easing the access to AIDS drugs in Africa initially benefits primarily the educated and middle class, it may play a decisive role in preventing the disease from destroying the people on whom the future of many African countries depend...
...Musical satisfaction and team spirit are great, and without those nothing would work; but in the real world we all know we can't depend just on intangibles like those to keep an enterprise that is so important to the spiritual and cultural life of the University going as it has to," Somerville wrote...
Unlike Portland, New York can depend on a go-to-guy, actually, three of them. Allan Houston, Sprewell, and Johnson have all shown themselves to be clutch in the past, and New York can depend on at least one of them being on their game each night. New York also has one advantage the Lakers cannot boast - a real homecourt advantage. While the Staples Center can be one of the quietest arenas in the NBA, Madison Square Garden is THE place to play...
...death penalty was justified, in certain brutal cases, on the basis of the social contract. That is: Some hideous crimes demand the ultimate punishment in order to satisfy the essentially civilizing deal that we make with one another as citizens. We forgo individual revenge, deferring to the law, but depend upon a certainty that the law will give us a justice that must include appropriate harshness. I favored the Texas folk wisdom: "He needs killing." If the law fails in that task, I said, and people see that evil is fecklessly tolerated, then the social contract disintegrates. Society needs...
...knew anything about a knife (or a gun) before the attack. Michigan has a tough, zero-tolerance law regarding weapons in schools. Our school employees pushed for that law, and they do not hesitate to enforce it. They know that their lives and the lives of their students depend on it. MARGARET TRIMER-HARTLEY Communications Consultant Michigan Education Association Flint, Mich...