Word: dependably
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...with maybe three to four times its population outside the country. They still leave and they still come home to the island, each time having to spend a day in Trinidad or Barbados waiting for an air shuttle. Their food-export market to the other, more developed islands will depend on larger planes being able to fly from Grenada. The Grenadians have been asking for this airport for almost 25 years, and the Cubans finally gave it to them. "The one mistake Reagan made was to interfere with the one project he should never touch," commented Bishop...
...Washington, who will be sworn in next week, the national implications of his victory are far less important than the local ones. Whatever influence he may hope to have beyond the city-and whatever effect his election may have for black political power-will depend on whether he is able to fill the potholes and calm the fears of Chicago's prickly neighborhoods. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Christopher Ogden and Don Winbush/Chicago
Viet Nam's economic survival continues to depend largely on Moscow's munificence. Soviet aid to Hanoi last year totaled about $1 billion, with an additional $500 million lent by other East bloc countries. In turn, the Soviets have demanded and been granted the right to use the military bases at Danang and the American-built facility at Cam Ranh Bay. Soviet diplomats, military experts and technical advisers stationed in Viet Nam now total some 10,000, and the number appears to be rising steadily...
Bill Gail, a graduate student in electrical engineering at Stanford, calls his winter of 1981 in a South Pole station similar to Siple probably the most valuable thing I've ever done You learn a lot about how to depend on yourself, and learn a lot about being able to understand people's strengths and weaknesses...
...owning stock is not the same as legislating segregation. The government of South Africa is clearly wrong, the companies doing business there face more complicated issues, like what will happen to their business if they pull out of the country, where their employees will go, how the nationals who depend on them for jobs, will get new ones. Yes, they are motivated by profit, but how many of us can deny the personal manifestation of that motive? Can Crimson editors who want to be CBS reporters? That the United Nations calls for divesting is no real help when I write...