Word: dependence
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...effect will depend on the youth turnout, the panelists said in a wood-panelled room adorned with a giant elephant head as they addressed 160 Republican National Convention (RNC) pages...
...outcome of this struggle does not depend solely on numbers. The vast majority of the world's more than 1 billion practicing Muslims are peaceful citizens getting on with their lives. But interviews by TIME with religious leaders, Islamic scholars, government analysts and ordinary citizens in dozens of countries around the world reveal that the fervor of those who adhere to radical forms of Islam has intensified since 9/11. While Muslims continue to consume and even celebrate Western pop culture, hostility to the policies of the West, in particular the U.S., appears to be on the rise. It is being...
...leader dares to think he can taste victory, the other may be fearing the awful finality of loss. Character is on trial, but so is the question of what inspires voters' sense of trust. Both will campaign on promises of a long, bright future. Who will win? That will depend on whether Australians are satisfied with what they've got in the hand, and the policies that have brought them here. Or if they are prepared to risk some of that comfort for, well, we haven't yet been told what, when...
...those skills depend largely on training. "Many practitioners claim to be certified, although there is no standard of certification in this country for Thai massage," says Bob Haddad, who practices the discipline in Chapel Hill, N.C. Haddad is attempting to organize an alliance that would recognize practitioners who have had at least 200 hours of documented training and additional hands-on practice...
...future of this spectacular species may depend on such experiments. Last fall animal conservationists were caught catnapping when a new survey revealed a sharp and unexpected drop in Africa's lion population. While the cat-conservation world was worried about the fate of Asia's endangered tigers, lions--considered vulnerable but not endangered--were quietly slipping toward oblivion. Ten years ago, the species was thought to number as many as 100,000. But the new appraisal, made public last September and published in the journal Oryx in January by Hans Bauer of Leiden University and Sarel van der Merwe...