Word: dependably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East Texas town of Lone Star (pop. 2,036), the Lone Star Steel Co. shut down last month, laying off 3,500 workers. Nearly 75% of the town's residents work at the plant, and most of the others are employed by firms that depend on the factory, which made tubular steel for oil pipes. But when no one is drilling, no one is buying tubular pipes. Opinion in Lone Star is divided about when, or even whether, prosperity will return to town. "There's a lot of people leaving, and we know we'll lose some...
Undeterred by Begin's apparent strength, Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres gamely retorted: "He has thrown down the gauntlet, and we shall pick it up. He wants early elections. Fine. We shall go for early elections." Labor's chances of winning them depend largely on Peres, who has lost two elections to Begin in the past five years. A former protege of Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, Peres, 59, has worked at the core of the Labor Party for more than three decades. He was appointed director-general of the Defense Ministry...
...course there is nothing wrong with making movies--or books or paintings, for that matter--that depend on the irrational rather than the rational; to disparage that would be to blunder into an ageless debate over the merits of faith versus reason--a debate that shows no signs of resolving itself. But there is something unsettling about the way Spielberg and Lucas, in their passion for faith, take pot-shots at reason...
Based on the premise that undocumented migrant workers "take jobs from Americans," the employers' sanctions in S. 2222 are unlikely to work. Employers in southwestern states use Mexican farm labor systematically. Many of their businesses depend on the seasonal influx from south of the border. It's hard to see how a $2000 fine per illegal worker--levied only after two warnings and a lengthy adjudication process--would influence many growers to end this lucrative practice. In any case, by liberalizing the rules governing the so-called "H-2" seasonal workers program, S. 2222 actually increases some employers' incentive...
...symbol of status, health or sex appeal, the strong body is a sensible goal ? and not only for those women whose livelihoods depend on the rigorous care and feeding of their bodies. Jane Doe, as as well well as Jane Fonda, is making a good habit out of exercise, sport and weight lifting, and has the new body to prove it. Lisa Yeager, 23, is a secretary at an Atlanta bank and a cheerleader for the Atlanta Hawks basketball team. "A well-toned body shows me that a woman cares enough about herself to improve herself. I exercise because...