Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Returning Russians. Meanwhile, Middle East peace will depend on restraint by both sides. Even if there is no resumption of major fighting, Israel seems in for more violence. Last Tuesday a terrorist's grenade exploded in the Old City section of Jerusalem, injuring 20; the following day a bomb exploded in an Israeli bus wounding 14 and killing one. Both incidents indicate the growing restlessness of the Palestinians living within the Israeli-occupied Arab territories. In the past month at least 60 suspected terrorists have been arrested in Israel for a series of attacks...
...full effects of these alterations depend on the newspapers that get the copy. Without special receiving equipment, wire-service stories still creep in over Teletype machines at the maximum rate of 66 words a minute. Papers that have invested in new machines are a long leg up on competitors; high-speed printers can receive wire stories at 1,050 words a minute, a major advantage at deadline time...
...insistence on efficiency and productivity has sacrificed not only the small and medium-sized farmer but the small and medium-sized businessman and industrialist--all of whom are Brazilians--to the advantage of multinational corporations...Our greatest problem is the fact that a certain few interests in Brazil--they depend on the whim of a mere handful of administrators--have become too big for our institutions to handle. The classical corrective steps that other countries use to impose compliance with their financial and economic policy, in Brazil just do not seem to protect the public interest...
...always smaller than the descriptive heritability, and it is very difficult to estimate in any human population. Only one, worthless, attempt to do so is known to me. Now, all of the predictions made about the effects of differential patterns of fertility, assortative mating patterns and environmental assortment depend critically upon the "predictive heritability" and not upon "descriptive heritability." Yet the heritability-mongers continue to make pseudo-scientific predictions with the wrong numbers...
...intolerably "wised up" - but no wiser. Did the group polled see any hope? Surprisingly enough, the answer is yes. Fully 86% of the sample felt that the Federal Government could be well run, despite whatever momentary disillusion they may have expressed. In other words, an inspiring leader could still depend on a bedrock of confidence among Americans...