Word: dependably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designer whose clothes shape-indeed, insist upon-a configuration of his own imagining. "Designers have never paid much attention to maternity clothes because pregnancy is such a temporary state," Norma Kamali remarks. It may be because maternity clothes do have their own afterlife that designers, who depend on variety, fight shy of them. Younger women, once they have delivered, will fold their wardrobes carefully for another year, another child. Older women may pass along their clothes to a friend, and they are no longer just garments then, but talismans, gentle reassurances. In this sharing there is a reaffirmation of community...
...even more sensitive social policy debates. Whether he supports the CCA in its efforts to equip the city with a racially and ethnically mixed school system in terms of students and teachers, or whether he takes the easier course of protecting teachers' seniority and other political interests, may also depend on the extent of Vellucci's commitment to the Independents...
Just how close the spikers come to accomplishing Palm's goals will depend on the rate and extent of improvement in back-row play. For this year at least, as go the service passing and defense, so goes the Crimson. If the back row play improves enough. Harvard should pose a threat to almost any Eastern team. "If this team gets the ball up to the setters in good position at the set, we have the power to score against most teams," Palm predicts...
...long run. This is quite probably true, but the superiority of economic over military aid does not eliminate the rationale for supplying military aid. Both types of aid are valuable tools for the construction of better foreign relations. The extent to which America uses these tools must depend on the circumstances of the given situation and not on the application of inflexible principle...
...nation's most fabled legal institution, but they are the superachieving 8% in each class who are selected to work on the prestigious journal. Law firms fight fiercely for the chance to pay them starting salaries that top $40,000. Now all those who prize and depend on this carefully structured system are in an uproar. The Review has voted to throw a short rope to minority students who have not made it quite as high as their white classmates, and critics, including most of the faculty, are decrying the fall of the "last bastion of meritocracy...