Word: dependence
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...acquire such "ground truth," the U.S. has to rely on the services of others. "What the CIA does well," says an intelligence official, "is give money to foreigners in exchange for information." So success may depend largely on Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, a tough outfit that has racked up a formidable reputation as a state within a state. With more than 40,000 officers and staff whose headquarters are in a drab military compound in Islamabad, the ISI puts tentacles deep into Afghanistan through thousands of Pashtu-speaking Pakistanis and hundreds of free-lance Afghan spies...
...TIME: Are you all about female empowerment? Kyoko: We want to give women a hint of what it's like to think another way. Take relationships. In Japan, many women are with a man just for the sake of being with a man. They depend on the man to complete themselves. But who knows when the man will leave? This kind of behavior is unthinkable for us. We get fan letters from women saying we've changed their lives, now they're finally able to get a divorce or whatever. We derive energy from this, like radio waves...
Thus, if the United States were determined to do so, it could entirely eliminate its dependence on oil from the Persian Gulf, albeit at the expense of making other net importers of petroleum—like France, Germany, Japan and South Korea—more dependent on Persian Gulf oil. Of course, saying that the U.S. can do this and that the U.S. should do this are two different things. While it would certainly be preferable not to have to depend on such a volatile region for a vital part of our economic livelihood, there’s the unsettling...
While any effort, they said, would include increased aid, it would also have take into account payment structures which depend on loans and loan forgiveness, as at the law school, business school and medical school...
Laborsky said the team will depend on an effective pass rush to limit Rahne’s effectiveness...