Word: dependence
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...California isn't used to getting the cold shoulder from Washington. But if the plight of the state's ratepayers hasn't forced Bush to rethink the wisdom of price caps, the plight of its Republicans may have. Control of the House in next year's midterm elections could depend on half a dozen endangered G.O.P. seats in California. That's why House majority whip Tom DeLay told Bush two weeks ago that he shouldn't count on Republicans to beat back price caps. There may be collateral damage at the other end of the Capitol as well. Sources...
...flower on the front and escaped from card hell. Then I made a beeline for the nearest stationery store, where I gathered an armful of plain, heavy Crane's notecards and envelopes. As I stood in line with my selections, I felt a weight lift: Never again will I depend on America's greeting card manufacturers...
...clients to write evaluations on their behalf. Moreover, anyone in the company can voluntarily submit a review of anyone else's performance. All this makes Enron's approach "a lot less subjective and a lot less random," says Steve Kean, an executive vice president, because "it doesn't depend on the views of any individual supervisor...
What it does depend on is the willingness of managers to fight for valued employees during what can swiftly become a brutal horse-trading session. "Even if everyone did great," says the former Enron employee, "someone has to fall into the 'needs improvement' category...
...will be heading toward a historic first: two full terms of a Labour government and a run at a third. Blair doesn't want to look power-mad by talking about the next election, but it's already in his sights - and he knows that winning it will depend on visibly fixing what ails Britain. One Labour insider says that "politics in a second term will become quite mundane, focusing on the nitty-gritty of how hospitals, doctors' surgeries, classrooms work." Another says that while implementing detailed reforms is not Blair's strong point, he will slog through...