Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nelson Rockefeller's chances depend primarily on Campaigner Rockefeller himself. Polls show that he is making a dent. The gap between candidates, once 20% in Harriman's favor, has narrowed to a hairline's difference. And among voters who made up their minds in the last fortnight, Rockefeller is the choice 8-2 in rural areas and a remarkable even-Stephen in New York City, where the heaviest Democratic vote must come from...
...short-wave radio voice belonged to an Alaskan schoolteacher doubling as practical nurse in the remote hamlet of Marshall on the Yukon River. The doctor was William Henry Brownlee Jr., 37, making his rounds among the 10,000 people who depend on his hospital at Bethel (pop. 1,000). Radio is the only way he can do it; his territory embraces 50,000 sq. mi.-bigger than New York State...
...success of a Student Council proposal for a subsidy from the Dean's Office may depend largely on the results of the forthcoming Council referendum, Dean Watson stated yesterday. Besides the student body's decision on the referendum, the Dean's Office would want to have an indication of "student interest" in the Council before taking action on the proposal...
...referendum should give de Gaulle the popular legitimacy he needs and wants. The subsequent course of the new state will depend on two things: Algeria and the November elections. Whether de Gaulle will invest his authority in an attempt at putting a rapid end to the Algerian conflict remains to be seen, for the margin of action is so small that the referendum is not likely to make a big difference...
...purposes of the new law will probably be to reduce the representation of the Communist Party in the National Assembly, so as to make the life of center parties, and of cabinets who depend on them, less uncomfortable. The real problem here, however, remains the size of the Communist vote in the country. Only persistent governmental action in such fields as education, housing, and social legislation has a chance of reducing this vote in the long...