Word: dependant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This time every major foreign party expressed disapproval, ranging from violent protest (Italy, Sweden, Yugoslavia) to distaste tempered by expediency (France and Cuba). Even Ru mania, a member of the Warsaw Pact, though it did not take part in the invasion, censured the action. Only in significant parties that depend on the Soviet dole (such as those in the U.S. and most in Latin America and the Middle East) endorsed the move...
...usually enhanced by slight changes around the outer corners of the eyes. Even the broad smile is not always an entirely convincing expression of surprise or pleasure unless it is accompanied by an elevation of the eyebrows, or what the researchers call a "raise." Other emotional expressions also depend on a delicate use of the eye area. In a sad frown, the eyebrows will ordinarily be drawn down at the outer ends. By contrast, they will be depressed on the inside in an angry frown...
Violence is simply not compatible with the serious and sustained intellectual work which is the essence of a University. The very intellectual processes on which study, teaching and research depend cannot proceed in the atmosphere of destructive emotions which invariably accompany violence and which are too often unleashed by it. If the University is to make any contribution toward reducing or overcoming the violence that on oasis of non-violence. This does not prevails in the world it must remain mean that even subtle forms of repression and authoritarianism which any hierarchical (or for that matter "participatory") organization creates must...
...thirds of its funds to students whose parents are in the lowest income quartiles. Less than 2 per cent are channeled to the top income quartile. There is no doubt that the redistributional characteristics of undergraduate student aid could be improved, but large numbers of low-income students depend on this support for their education. It is not clear what purpose would be served by driving these funds out of the University...
Still, individualism has not lost its hold on the American psyche. In a moral crisis, most people say that they depend on their conscience to be their guide rather than on any external authority. Among whites, 45% believe that a man should depend on himself and not ask for favors; 53% of blacks agree. Yet 66% of the blacks questioned by Harris' interviewers contended that '"it helps to know people" in getting ahead, while only 33% of the whites thought so. Again, "If you don't look out for yourself, nobody else will" is a statement accepted...