Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...correct, the recent decision allowing cutoff of public funding is simply wrong. The state may consistently pay for an appendectomy while denying funds for cosmetic surgery, because that distinction does not involve any controversial moral views. But the supposed difference between an appendix removal and an abortion does depend on a moral position. The state has no business enforcing a moral judgment on a minority...
...Secretary of State has managed to secure at least one positive sign: the Arabs genuinely want to keep talking. Nonetheless, the odds of a Geneva Conference by October are virtually nil, though Vance still hopes that a reunion will occur by the end of the year That, however, will depend upon a tremendous amount of work-and luck...
...that ringing declaration, made at the University of Notre Dame last May, Jimmy Carter might have added "You can depend on it!" In his half-year in office, the President has gone far toward creating a new American foreign policy, both in content and conduct. He has tirelessly emphasized ?some might say preached?the virtues of open diplomacy and moral principles as a substitute for what he contends was the often secretive and sometimes amoral Realpolitik of the Nixon-Ford-Kissinger years. He has spent an extraordinary amount of time on foreign affairs and has made more news...
...concerned. He does not offer that conclusion to friends or visitors. He even avoids questions, insisting that he will not indulge in tactical carping. He believes that the new boys need all the help they can get, that his place in history may ultimately depend on how well the Carter Administration builds on the foreign policy initiatives of the Nixon-Ford...
...solution of the youth crime problem does not depend only on an improved judiciary system and better legislation. To wipe out crime a whole set of economic, social, cultural, educational and legal problems have to be solved. Higher living standards unaccompanied by provision for better education will have little effect...