Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wide (6-mile) chunk of ice and rock could slam into the planet, carving an enormous crater, generating tidal waves and throwing up a worldwide pall of dust that could block sunlight for months. Plants would be largely wiped out, and so would many species that ultimately depend on plants for food -- including, perhaps, the human race. Just such a disaster, many scientists believe, killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A smaller strike in the Atlantic 35 million years ago, described in a U.S. Geological Survey report released last week, sent a 300-m- high...
...wealthy families think they are middle class and entitled to outright grants. Due to the school's particular pool of applicants, "at Lehigh we have more kids on financial aid from families earning more than $75,000 than from families earning less than $15,000." No longer able to depend on Washington to shoulder a bigger burden of aid costs, Lehigh has been forced to increase its contributions from $2 million to $18 million over the past decade. Some smaller colleges actually spend more on aid than on faculty salaries. "Something radical has to happen," says Likins. "The current system...
Stempel had the misfortune of becoming chairman just as the U.S. was sliding into recession. That hindered sales of GM's 1991 fall line, one of its best in years. The redesigned models included the full-bodied Buick Park Avenue and the luxurious Cadillac Seville. "Our sales depend on the economy," says Jamal Karmouta, who manages a Chevrolet dealership in Southern California. "When the economy moves up a little, we'll be selling more cars." But with GM strapped for cash, its new offerings for 1993 are limited mainly to a redesigned Cadillac Brougham and sporty Camaros and Firebirds...
...seriously. These people cluster around campus, these short-sighted nothings who cannot see beyond the tail of reputation behind them and the promise of greatness before. Such souls are not to be admired, but pitied, for they fail to understand that we live and die, that we depend on others, that their achievements are as ephemeral as the autumn squirrel's nut store...
...know how they can do it," said Marion B. Rocci, a Huron Towers resident who relies on a shuttle bus to bring her to the supermarket. "A lot of people are upset. It's a shame...I depend...