Word: dependably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Health and Human Services has shied away from funding research on "test-tube fertilization" because of pressure from right-to-life groups. As a consequence, the discovery of new techniques to make the procedure more reliable and lower its cost (currently $6,000 for each attempted fertilization) must depend on uncertain private financing...
...news conference announcing his decision, Tsongas described the state as "in a free-fall" and said the cure to its problems depend on actions by political leaders, business leaders and the media...
Much will depend, of course, on whether, and how soon, Krenz delivers on his rhetoric of freedom. The conviction that they will be able to decide their future could indeed keep at home most East Germans who are now tempted to flee; it is difficult to see anything else that might. Until the opening of the Wall, however, Krenz's reformist inclinations had seemed ambiguous. For many years he had been a faithful follower of Honecker's, and as recently as September defended the Chinese government's bloody suppression of pro- democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. His conversion...
...hoping that we will get at the true unmarried-couple situation where there is intimacy between partners," says Arlene Saluter, who studies marriage and family composition for the Census Bureau, "but it will depend on how people view the question...
...writer-director Amy Heckerling, 35, had an adult agenda in mind. "It's not who do you want to sleep with; it's who can you depend on," she says. "Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. I was trying to deal with those issues. The talking baby was comic relief...