Word: dependence
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...symptoms include accelerating deforestation and loss of species, and growing atmospheric pollution by greenhouse gases and the ozone-eating chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS). The full list is familiar. The causes are rooted in our growing numbers and the complexities of society's interaction with the natural world upon which we depend...
...hard to assess how much can actually be achieved at Rio. But it is clear that there will be plenty to do afterward, and it is not too soon to think about how new strategies might be most effectively pursued. Certainly we cannot depend on periodic mechanisms like the Earth Summit, which manage to be both ponderous and convulsive at the same time. There is a need for an interim continuing structure like the Security Council within the United Nations. An alternative might be a voluntary mechanism like the Group of Seven meetings, but one that includes some...
Labor expert Patricia A. Greenfield, a laborrelations scholar at the University ofMassachusetts-Amherst, sides with Nigro, addingthat the union's posture should depend in part onthe University's stance...
...will depend, ultimately, on the strengthof Rudenstine's own convictions. He says thatthough he has faced some institutional obstaclesin his early attempts to pull the Universitytogether, he has nonetheless been able to get hismessage across...
Turow pointed to his own life story as evidence that for the graduating seniors, facing a job market that offers scarce opportunities, success would depend mostly on "being at the right place, at the right time...