Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true that our budget deficit deserves attention. But Tsongas, Warren Rudman and their Concord Coalition use rhetoric that suggests that it is wrong by its very nature. In fact, borrowing money in order to spend it is morally neutral. Our judgment of such borrowing should depend on what it is used for; there can be good and bad deficits. But deficit spending in and of itself can be useful and should not be shamed out of the political debate...
...sport in which wins and losses depend as much on trigonometry and physics as brute strength and coordination, Spracklin, according to Butt, refined Butt's understanding of a rowing technique that would make Harvard's season extraordinary...
Whatever their scientific validity, these complaints are giving people whose livelihoods depend on MSG, well, headaches. After a recent flurry of ominous news reports, the Food and Drug Administration is promising new regulations on the additive, and some observers wonder whether an MSG crackdown is in the offing...
...racism," Chen says. "That's what we can'tunderstand. It's very hard. The majority ofChinese people in the U.S. depend on Chineserestaurants for support, for money, for jobs...
...role is what makes the movie asuccess. Cheung, despite being a Hong Kong popstar accustomed to playing leading man roles, isperfectly cast. His Dieyi is in some ways the mostfeminine character of the movie, a tragic figurefaithful to the man be loves. The son of aprostitute, Dieyi comes to depend upon Xiaolou forguidance and purpose. The young Dieyi is already asexually ambiguous figure, and this ambiguity isincreased by being forced to sing lines like "I amby nature a girl, not a boy," and participate in aprocess designed to allow him to play female rolesconvincingly. He initially refuses, apparentlyfrightened...