Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were historic, that peace was still of overriding national concern, and that he was indispensable to its maintenance. He indicated that he will now turn to domestic legislation with a new urgency, although he suggested only two really innovative proposals: 1) a national health insurance program that will largely depend upon the purchase of private group insurance by employers for their workers and will require no new taxes ("We must always make sure that our doctors will be working for their patients and not for the Federal Government"); and 2) a welfare-reform program that will rely heavily...
...better American guidance systems enable the U.S. warheads to strike within a quarter of a mile of the target. The Pentagon believes that Soviet missiles can do no better than hit one-half mile from the target. The Soviets depend on size to compensate for their missiles' inferior electronic brainpower...
...more interesting than the Star itself. He confidently expects to tap a huge audience that others are not reaching. He thinks that most major publications here are aimed "at the rich and the intellectual." "Daily newspapers are limited and local," he says, "and national magazines have to depend on advertising dollars and the opinions of Madison Avenue." He wants the Star to lean almost solely on circulation revenue provided by readers willing to pay a quarter at newsstands or supermarkets...
...would all prefer a world in which our nation were invulnerable to nuclear attack, an international system in which national survival would not depend on our ability to slaughter a hundred million Russians. But such a world is not feasible today, nor is it likely in the foreseeable future...
...hell, I've got debts up to my neck, and the pay they give you for reserve service ($190 a month) doesn't cover everything when you've got three kids and a pregnant wife." Said a bank clerk from Haifa: "You can't depend on the Arabs, but we've had war, war, war It's been that way since Moses left Egypt. And here we are, leaving Egypt again...