Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first Solzhenitsyn demurred, but the reporter persisted. "The world is interested in your reaction," Hegge said. Finally, Solzhenitsyn agreed to draft a statement, which he then read to Hegge. "I accept the prize," said Solzhenitsyn. "As far as it will depend on me, I intend to receive the prize in person on the traditional day." To make sure no one could say that he was too ill to travel, Solzhenitsyn added: "I am in good health...
...effectiveness of all this expanded activity will greatly depend on whether Congress agrees next year to enlarge the FTC's budget beyond the meager $20.5 million authorized for fiscal 1970. If the commission continues its performance of recent months, an increasingly consumer-minded Congress might be persuaded to up the ante...
...above using a little oil blackmail to raise prices, as Libya recently did. Libya is one country that enjoys a seller's market, situated as it is close to Europe, where its low-sulfur oil is much in demand. Over the past six years, Europeans have come to depend on Libya for 30% of their oil. Playing on that, the revolutionary government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has pressured the companies to raise their posted price by 13.4% and pay the government a 5% tax surcharge. Most of the independent companies operating in Libya have agreed, and as of last...
...offshore fields will prove rich enough even to fill Japan's needs. Simply paying for large amounts of imports will precipitate a huge balance of payments drain unless American companies profit proportionately from the growing world demand for oil. For the foreseeable future, the oil-thirsty world will depend heavily on the bountiful reserves of the Middle East, for which the consuming countries will have to pay an increasingly steep price...
...animal world use a wide variety of clues for orientation. Some birds make use of the coastline, the sun or, more commonly, the stars. There is a theory that others are guided by the slight force of the earth's magnetic field. Some animals seem to depend upon old-fashioned topographic features, which they pick up with their own sonar. Eels, according to studies reported by Orr, have so keen a sense of smell that they could detect half a teaspoon of alcohol diluted in 42-mile-long Lake Constance...