Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tempting to interpret the court's impulse to roll back the authority of the Federal Government as a leap aboard the new conservative bandwagon of devolution. The move, however, has been brewing in the court for years, led by conservative Justices. Because the ruling's impact will depend on the court's inclinations, it may be too soon to say whether the Lopez ruling represents, in the words of Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman, a "constitutional moment" -- an epochal period when the court realigns itself with a deep shift in prevailing political philosophy-or rather, as Ackerman's Yale colleague...
...without melting, I was no longer a liability but an asset. My assignments from 1974 to 1980 were a learning experience for the men and for me. We were professionals, and we learned to respect each other. We also joked. In additon, we knew we could always depend on each other in an emergency. This is exactly what is developing on the U.S.S. Eisenhower...
...Harvard survey, Wheeler noted thatits usefulness in affecting future HDS policy willultimately depend on students' responses...
...wonder about other groups. Does postering technique depend on the organization? A tall, while male approaches the Kiosk...
...worked strongly on me, and still does: that wide-open sky waiting above the helicopter like freedom itself; the dark line of people bearing their hopes of deliverance; the apparent fragility of the craft, its precarious roost, the spindliness of the rotors on which all these hopes depend; and most eloquent, the figure of the crew chief silhouetted against the empty sky, pulling some fearful soul from one life into another, as we had set out to do by other means so many years before...