Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consequences will be particularly hard felt in the U.S., which burns about one-third of the world's oil and stands to depend increasingly on foreign supplies. Last week, in a television address to the nation, President Nixon implored Congress to create an agency that would be given much more funding than the Manhattan Project, which produced the wartime atomic bomb. The aim of this new energy research and development administration would be to develop enough domestic petroleum, nuclear, solar and other energy sources to make the U.S. self-sufficient in energy by 1980?an unlikely possibility...
...Stade said the availability of space for more resident tutors may depend on the completion of the new freshman dormitory in the Yard, which could house some sophomores...
AMERICANS TAKE THE resource of energy for granted in their decision making. Architects and contractors give little priority to energy in their buildings. Living in houses with bad insulation and poor air circulation, Americans depend heavily on heating and air conditioning. Industry manufactures machines which do not take into account energy consumption. Many students, for example, buy stereos which trade 3 per cent better sound quality for 40 per cent more energy. Government money is spent on highways rather than public transportation...
Teammates aside, many of the receptions McInally has made this year depend on his considerable individual talents. His towering size and exceptional speed allow him to dominate smaller defensive backs, and his sticky fingers are making the off-balance, one-handed grab his trademark...
Other philosophical questions are highlighted by the clinic situation. The patient's right to know what is happening to him becomes more important where future history-taking by different doctors may depend on what the patient knows about what has been done in the past. Both Blevins and Eppinger agreed strongly that the patient has every right to know about his disease and his treatment...