Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was not "going it alone," but quite the opposite. It did not mean bolting the U.N. or ignoring allies. In a time of fluidity, it was a relearning of an old truth: that agreements are most binding when they most respond to actual interests, and do not depend on reluctant assents by vast accumulations of dissatisfied or disinterested partners...
...success of station KUHT will largely depend the future of 16 other education TV stations scheduled to go on the air in the next few years. Sponsored by the University of Houston and the Houston Independent School District, station KUHT was built at a cost of $250,000, is planned to operate on a maximum annual budget of $150,000. For reasons both of economy and experience, music students will perform the music, art students will work on the sets, photographic students will operate the cameras. Aiming ultimately at 40 hours of transmission a week, KUHT's programs will...
Until recently, one of the scarcest and hardest-sought metals was columbium. Although not extraordinarily tough in itself, it mixes with steel, nickel and other metals to make alloys that can withstand the tremendous jet heat. The U.S. must depend on Africa, however, for 95% of its limited supply. Accordingly, a big hunt was started for substitutes and yielded the most promising wonder metal of all-titanium...
Education has long been a drug on the nostrum market. Professional problem-solvers, from pedagogues to the Reader's Digest variety, depend on it to escape the difficulties in their solutions and it is firmly enshrined in the American Success Story. A nation governed by philosopher-kings, with the entire population sharing the royal purple, is a splendid sentiment for commencements, one which graduating seniors will no doubt hear again and again...
Schuman showed European weavers how to modernize their methods, then placed orders with six mills for their entire output during certain months. The success of the whole plan, he believed, would depend on three rules: 1) buy abroad only what can not be obtained in the U.S.; 2) buy only in areas where the cloth has been made by craftsmen for years (i.e., broadcloth in Normandy, worsteds in northern France); 3) insist that mills pay at least 75? an hour to their employees...