Word: dependence
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fear caused by the hijackings has also devastated the airline industry and other businesses that depend on it. As consumers choose not to fly, planes are taking off nearly empty, and some air-shuttles carry fewer passengers than crew...
...Tommy’s House of Pizza has been leaving its veteran customers with bitter tongues. Many are disappointed by the cuisine’s recent loss of Italian flavor and authenticity. With so much instability in this world, can’t college students, at the very least, depend on their greasy munchies...
...George W. Bush signs the legislation, as he has already stated he will. Whether or not to provide heavy assistance to the airlines did not pose much of an economic dilemma for U.S. lawmakers; the airline industry is a major sector of the U.S. economy, and many other industries depend on air travel as part of our nation’s basic infrastructure...
...stalled too long, other papers would grab public attention and we’d be seen as behind the news. We went ahead and published, eager to establish our ground as a reliable source for readers to depend on for up-to-date information...
What goes unnoticed in these discussions is that assertions of bias, as with all historical interpretations, depend on very general assumptions about the way humans think, act and write—that “people generally act according to their own interests,” “those without power envy those who have it,” “men seek honor as well as riches.” Those among us who view bias as an absolute bar to objective judgment would shrink from making such universal claims on the residents of a faraway place...