Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Additional difficulties have stemmed from the fact that the Visual and Environmental Studies Department is among the newest at Harvard, fairly small, and struggling for more financial support from the University. Many studio courses depend on fees, an almost unheard of situation in the sciences. The small but dedicated faculty have virtually achieved miracles within the limitations of space and budget that have affected teaching, studying and exhibitions. Yet the department chairman, Lou Bakanowsky has been much quoted for his remark that "the visual arts need to be more visible...
...Saudis have made it clear to Sadat that the extent of future support will depend, in no small part, on the degree to which Sadat succeeds in linking the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty with an overall settlement. For that reason Sadat is pressing the Israelis to agree in the treaty to a specific timetable for negotiating the future of the West Bank and Gaza...
...Correspondent George Taber: "Economic policy under Carter has been very confused, and adding Kahn to the kitchen has made things worse. Kahn has a distinct disadvantage: he is not responsible for any single area, like the budget or regulation or economic projections. Everything that he wants to do will depend on the willingness of some other agency or department chief to go along...
...Anybody who had the more important positions was given them by merit," Yappert says. "Most of the people," he adds, "who worked at the top were my friends, but they were competent. You have to have confidence in and be able to depend on these people...
...second important underlying premise is the notion that individuals have a right to expect certain services from government. In America, to depend too much on government is seen as a weakness and an inhibitor of freedom. At the simplest level, the logical development of this attitude ensures the freedom to starve or to die of ill-health, through inability to pay the doctor's bills. There is certainly a relationship between the values of a society and the form of its healthcare delivery system. Perhaps Europeans have less cultural and ideological inhibitions in allocating certain tasks to the state...