Word: dependence
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...cafe could have claimed "a defense for sex discrimination...on the basis of authenticity," said Bartholet. "The result would depend on the court. That claim has been made before, but it's a pretty narrow defense...
...that, Naim saw growth possibilities of 2% to 3% in the region. U.S. trade and foreign investment have made Mexico a comparative bright spot, and Brazil has begun to recover from a slump. But the improving prospects depend on continuing prosperity outside the region. "It is wrong that a stock-market crash in the U.S. could benefit emerging markets," said Naim. "When there is a correction, money flows out of the American stock market into bonds--not to emerging markets...
Today we are engulfed by the signal-carrying waves of broadcast radio and TV. Come 2025, we will be engulfed by a "cybersphere" in which billions of "information structures" will drift (invisible but real, like radio waves) bearing the words, sounds and pictures on which our lives depend. That's because the electronic world will have achieved some coherence by 2025. Instead of phone, computer and TV networks side by side, one network will do it all. TVs and phones and computers will all be variations on one theme. Their function will be to tune in these information structures...
Questions were also raised about how the Trust should approach committee members who were also applying for funding for their group. Many of the students serving on the Trust committee also have close ties to women's groups on campus who will depend on the Trust for money...
...best of Parker's work, like "Room for Margins," depend on such effective combinations of the visual and the narrative aspects of her art. The most memorable have as much visual as verbal wit, and can stand alone without the extra information, the story, imparted by the caption. A visit to a firearm factory yielded two Colt 45 revolvers, arrested mid-production and polished, so that they look soft and immature, almost harmless. Visually, the pair of handguns look like two Nefertitis moving in for a kiss...