Word: dependence
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...resume sometime in the second quarter. Not rapid growth -- perhaps at an annual rate of only 1% or 2%. But when it comes, it will be a welcome change from the 2.1% shrinkage in the last quarter of 1990. Precisely how soon the U.S. recession will end seems to depend most on whether the war is long or short. While the answer to that one is anybody's guess, America's investors have emphatically made a judgment...
Today, clinicians are equally baffled by the mechanism by which an innocuous-looking tumor balloons up into a deadly cancer within the body. "Whether capillaries will grow or not grow toward a tumor may depend on one or more events that are not clearly understood at this time," the Harvard researchers wrote in the New England Journal paper...
...immediate financial cost of the war will depend on the length of the fighting and the generosity of its allies. But the expense of maintaining peace in the Persian Gulf will scarcely end once the guns fall silent. Even if Pentagon planners decide against replacing most lost equipment, the services are likely to clamor for more high-tech weapons like the Stealth fighters and Patriot antimissile systems, which have become media stars of the conflict. Moreover, the U.S. will probably need to keep a large garrison force in the region. Washington may soon have to stop dithering and decide...
...matter how much he must depend on the armed forces, Gorbachev will have to think carefully before turning to martial law in the republics that defy him. All 15 of the republics -- with giant Russia in the lead -- are in some ways loosening the ties that bind them to Moscow, and despite the pervasiveness of the security forces, it is not clear they could hold them all in check at the same time. "If they have to crack down in lots of places," says an analyst in Washington, "that could create a revolutionary situation." The Soviet people can still...
...long as the Middle East remains a highly visible problem area, we are likely to need more sources of government and private funding," the center's director says. "Whether they will be forthcoming will depend on the situation after...