Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Microsoft's] assertions are unfounded and overblown and depend largely on assumptions and conjecture," it read...
Intel has ceased being just a Silicon Valley wonder. It has become a weather vane for an entire digital economy, a complete ecosystem of drive manufacturers, software houses and Web programmers whose businesses depend on escalating PC growth. Because Grove and his firm control the blueprints of the PC, he is in the unique position of being able to tell customers what to do. Intel sets release dates for new chips, dictating the pace of the computer industry with the confident aplomb of fashion designers raising or lowering hemlines. It's the sort of ironfisted market grip that rarely exists...
...efficiency, even without being bound by a treaty. The White House is also hoping that new advances in technology--say, refrigerators that can run on the energy it takes to burn a light bulb--will help make the treaty seem more consumer friendly. Its success in the end will depend on expanding America's environmental constituency: Will the soccer moms give up their sport-utility vehicles for a future of fresh...
...Japan is in a race to reinvent itself. Unlike Korea, Thailand or Indonesia, whose recoveries depend humblingly on multibillion-dollar handouts from the IMF, Asia's first economic miracle baby has the wherewithal--financial and social--to do the job on its own. The world's biggest creditor nation has more than $11 trillion in household financial assets alone. Having gone through substantial reorganization in recent years, its top manufacturing companies can compete with the best of the rest...
...quickly the world's energy systems are transformed will depend in part on whether fossil-fuel prices remain low and the entrenched opposition of many oil and electric-power companies can be overcome. The pace of change will be heavily influenced by the climate agreement that emerges in Kyoto and the national policies that follow. In the 1980s, California provided tax incentives and access to the power grid for new energy sources, which enabled the state to dominate renewable-energy markets worldwide. Similar incentives and access have been offered by European countries in the 1990s. Sometimes such measures are needed...