Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...macabre carnival of the '60s has long since subsided, although it worked profound changes in America. It remains a question, though, what lessons were carried away from Viet Nam on those last helicopters (see Opinion, page 20). And how Americans finally feel about the aftermath will partly depend on how the victors act in Indochina...
...skepticism is understandable and important-because recoveries, like recessions, depend partly on popular psychology. Calling an upturn is difficult even for professional economists; frequently the process of recovery must go on for two or three months before the signs become unmistakable. Meanwhile, the economy presents a confusingly mixed picture: some indicators are showing strength while others are still plunging-and some, like spending for new plant and equipment, usually go on dropping long after almost everything else has turned...
...shots, top-spin lobs and overhead smashes. But the keys to his game are his ground strokes, particularly service returns. "When Jimmy gets grooved returning serves, he's really dangerous," says Stan Smith, co-ranked No. 1 with Connors last year. Tennis experts agree that Connors' chances against Newcombe depend on his counter to the Australian's serve...
...than ever before. Congress may flatly refuse President Ford the unqualified authority and unlimited funds that it awarded his predecessors and that he needs to continue the war. But Congress's new willingness to refuse--if it doesn't crumble under pressure, as several key representatives already have--will depend less on leftists' and liberals' imagination of mechanized warfare than on liberals' and conservatives' unwillingness so he bothered with such things at all, on their new acceptance in theory of horrors like those they helped inflict in practice...
...Garrett Hardin, author of "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor." Mr. Hardin's argument is that humanity may be likened to a cancer, spreading over the body of the earth and that "as the fast-reproducing poor outnumber the slow-reproducing rich," they will come to depend more and more on foreign aid and the charity of the wealthy, eventually overtaxing and destroying the environment...