Word: dependence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much will depend on the city's leadership in the next decade -- a leadership that has been notoriously lacking in the past. "Miami has never had enlightened leadership. The Anglo establishment lives in the Miami of the '40s and '50s," gripes Maurice Ferre, the Puerto Rican-born county commissioner who shaped much of Miami's downtown skyline while serving as mayor from 1973 to 1985. As head of Dade's Destination 2001 panel, Ferre believes the key to the future is in the younger generation of Cuban Americans who live with one foot in each world. New surveys show, however...
...favorite Brown lost to Fairfield in its season opener, and Harvard's hopes for an Ivy title (which, for the first time, carries with it an NCAA Tournament bid) will depend on a return to health and quick on-the-court training of the underclassmen...
Workers' wages depend on their skill and productivity; in short, employers pay their workers what their labor is worth. Since the act of passing minimum wage laws does not increase worker productivity, businesses will have to pay more for the same labor...
...those of us whose careers depend upon the successful reading of entrails, the recent vote for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a career-challenging, once-in-a-lifetime, baptism-by-fire, (place your cliche here) experience. The escalating demagoguery and the reduction of a substantive issue to excruciating sound bites and appalling rhymes (NAFTA: we hafta, or we'll be sorry thereafta) during the weeks immediately preceding the vote were perhaps the strongest argument for keeping the administrative proceedings which accompany such international trade negotiations opaque...
...designs are numerous and varied--there's something for everyone. Predictably, Yale smut surfaces in designs which depend on "sexual innuendos," explains Winkler. "Huck Farvard," reads one, while another offers the "Top 10 Reasons to go to Yale" (Reason number one: Yale always ends up on "top.") Others shirts are take-offs of popular TV characters like Beavis and Butthead and "Yalie" Kramer of "Seinfeld," who stomps a Crimson helmet...