Word: dependably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...direction of interest rates will depend in large part on the monetary policies pursued by Chairman Paul Volcker and his six colleagues on the Federal Reserve Board. As always, they will try to strike a balance between promoting growth and keeping inflation from accelerating. Many economists are confident that Volcker will let interest rates continue to fall if the economy shows further signs of slipping into a downturn...
...only do the candidates with name recognition-those on his council-have a natural edge, but also the last that the committee's purposes are obscure to the average undergraduate hinders any candidate's attempt to run on a coherent platform. An ability to propose constructive action depend on an understanding of the committees, which appears to hinge on how many council members of candidate known. Such self-selection, however, destroys the original purpose of increasing the breadth of student opinions expressed to the Faculty on key issues for undergraduates...
...funds to entire institutions, rather than just to the offending department or program, if discrimination is practiced. Killed, too, was a bill to renew and increase financing of the superfund program under which Washington helps states and localities clean up toxic-waste dumps. The fates of these bills will depend heavily on the unknown makeup of the next Congress and Administration...
...things: to re-equip ourselves with the same number of planes and tanks as before; and to restructure our economy toward science-based, high-technology industries, and on that we would like to ask your help. But the time will come when we will no longer have to depend on American support...
Disinformation is the term that intelligence analysts give to falsehoods a country disseminates by duping foreign news media. Such campaigns usually depend on a legitimate journalist's unwitting participation. Thus it is often all but impossible, even long after the fact, for a news organization to detect that it has been the victim of disinformation. One classic instance that took months to expose: the rash of stories planted among Western journal ists that the late Soviet leader Yuri Andropov was a fan of jazz and Western fiction and a closet liberal...