Word: dependence
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...would have predicted that the future of Nato - the most successful military alliance the world has ever seen - would come to depend on what happens in lawless Afghanistan in the next two years? Yet that is what officials on both sides of the Atlantic are saying as the alliance faces up to the reality of its ambition, announced in February 2005, to take on a bigger role in Afghanistan. The Dutch parliament is now threatening to pull the plug on the Netherlands' 1,200-strong contribution to the expanded mission. The Netherlands is still gripped by the humiliation its country...
...crop of companies - Infosys, Jet Airways and Mittal Steel - whose leaders are trying to become the next masters of the universe. Indeed, while Davos was in full swing on Friday, Mittal Steel made an audacious j18.6 billion bid for Europe's steel champion, Luxembourg-based Arcelor. Naturally, such predictions depend on a huge number of assumptions that could easily be wrong. Both nations could be derailed by geopolitical instability or Western protectionism. Both need to overcome enormous regional disparities of wealth and spread their growing prosperity more evenly among their populations. Davos had a well-attended session that focused...
...corrupt local officials have pocketed the money. In Guangdong alone, two million farmers have been displaced by development, according to provincial statistics. These land seizures were one of the top causes for the 84,000 "disturbances to public order" that Beijing says broke out nationwide in 2005. "We farmers depend on our mountain and our lake to make a living," says Lin's brother. "Now that they've taken them away, how can we continue our lives...
...true irony facing Green is that his legacy may very well depend on getting the bank back to where it started. Although HSBC's pretax profits from emerging markets jumped 45% in the first half of 2005, according to Morgan Stanley, some bank analysts believe that Green will have to make even more major acquisitions to keep up that pace, especially in Asia. "It is a critical part of the potential growth," says Smith, HSBC's Asia CEO. "It is very important that we get it right." If HSBC does, its future may well be as storied--and profitable...
Ultimately, the future of Medicare Part D will depend not just on Republicans or Democrats, insurers or drugmakers, pharmacists or health-care experts. It will hinge on the willingness of the millions of people eligible for Medicare to submit to this experiment in free-market health care. Americans could decide that the health of the old, the sick and the needy deserves a system separate from the one that rules whether Internet companies and T shirt makers live or die. But if enough people agree to endure the smaller upheavals that are sure to come, Part D gives them...