Word: dependence
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...fact that it is Pakistan's key military ally, particularly since that country's nuclear program forced the U.S. to maintain its distance for most of the past decade. China is certainly in a position to put the squeeze on Pakistan?s leadership, but much may depend on Beijing?s attitude to any direct U.S. intervention in Afghanistan...
...understanding of the inner Koizumi is crucial: his chances of resuscitating the world's second-largest economy may depend on which aspects of his complicated character govern his decisions and actions...
...security status; the Hoover Dam and the Mall of America shut down, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and Mount Rushmore. It was as though someone had taken a huge brush and painted a bull's-eye around every place Americans gather, every icon we revere, every service we depend on, and vowed to take them out or shut them down, or force us to do it ourselves...
...security status; the Hoover Dam and the Mall of America shut down, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and Mount Rushmore. It was as though someone had taken a huge brush and painted a bull's-eye around every place Americans gather, every icon we revere, every service we depend on, and vowed to take them out or shut them down, or force us to do it ourselves...
...terror of this loss goes way beyond writers, of course. It's just that writers depend on the ability to make connections out of thin air, or no air. The novelist Jean Stafford lived with the dread that she would be crippled by a stroke (she was). H.L. Mencken was a stroke victim who, at the end of his life, was unable to read or write. One of those who sat at his bedside and read to him was Manchester...