Word: dependably
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Selling stock would also be inappropriate for a university on other grounds. Institutions of learning depend on preserving the freedom of their professors and students to teach and learn as they think best. Over the years, we have gradually persuaded outside groups, including corporations, not to try to use financial leverage to impose their views upon our campuses. We cannot expect these organizations to continue exercising such restraint if we insist on resorting to boycotts in an effort to impose our will on them. Once powerful groups in the society feel free to use economic sanctions to force their opinions...
...terribly disappointing to have faith in someone as a role model and have them turn out to be tainted," complained Gladys Roost, 80, a Dodger fan in Los Angeles. Shirley Murphy, 33, a secretary in Baltimore, agreed. "It is a damn shame that these guys can't depend on their talent to see them through," she said. Declared Ralph Bass, 63, a Texas Ranger booster: "Making that kind of money, they ought to set a better example...
Imposing limits on graduate student teaching loads, however, would be an expensive proposition. Students who currently depend on teaching stipends would require additional financial aid. At the same time, the Faculty would be forced to hire more instructors to replace the lost teaching fellows...
...improve the material status of a considerable number of retired people, to allocate annually, free of charge, about 1 million plots of land for planting orchards, for people to have what you call a "second home." We are planning many other steps as well. Their scope will naturally depend on progress in the economy. Of late, positive changes have become evident: the rates of industrial production and labor productivity have increased...
...modest deficit- reduction program from dissolving into a veto-ridden stalemate. Reagan's staff is aware that the success of his second term may be at stake. "It will be a crucial three or four months; we all know that," concedes a White House aide. "It's going to depend heavily on the President...