Word: dependance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ironically, most seniors will write Harvard a check from money their parents gave them. Students who depend on their own resources are far less likely to have the extra cash on hand. These seniors may well decide to contribute a modest (but hard-earned) sum. Habit-forming purpose aside, it is slightly incongruous to write a twenty dollar check to an institution that has given you thousands in financial aid. The "success" of the Class Gift drive may depend on everyone's participation, but its effective influence on Harvard's finances will be determined by how many seniors have rich...
Pilots are particularly concerned about interference with the circuitry that picks up radio signals from the so-called VOR (visual omni-range) network -- hundreds of cone-shaped navigation beacons scattered across the U.S. Automatic flight-control systems depend on clear VOR signals to land planes safely when visibility is poor. But some of that VOR equipment has been behaving strangely of late, occasionally causing aircraft on autopilot to veer sickeningly out of control...
...Those of us taking computer courses depend on HUSC 10," said Michael J. Morell '95. Morell is an economics concentrator in Currier House who is taking a computer class. He could not access his work over the weekend...
About 3 million citizens and resident aliens of Arab origin live in the U.S., and their cultural associations and fund raising for Islamic causes are not secret. Many Palestinians in the territories depend on remittances from relatives in the U.S. for personal and institutional needs. Some of the donors are politically active and anti-Israel as well. But no one before had suggested that they directed the attacks claimed by fundamentalist groups that have resulted in the death of eight Israeli soldiers in the past two months...
...like me," says Paul. With a baby due in May, they're bracing for a pay cut. "Fortunately, all the baby stuff will come from our parents, since this is the first grandchild," says Paul. Even so, he's not entirely comfortable with the arrangement. He says, "If we depend on our parents and something happens, and we don't get it, what are our children going...