Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students are less likely than pre-meds to fall into the trap of seeking a surrogate for the sorts of activity they will be doing in professional school. Law school admissions usually depend on grade point average and law board scores. Potential lawyers are not expected to take any particular set of courses, which eliminates one source of the tensions pre-meds face; and law school admissions are not as competitive as medical school admissions, which mitigates another source of pressure...
...well-established premise that the grand jury has a right to every man's evidence and that for purposes of gathering evidence, process may issue to anyone. The propriety of introducing any paper into a case, as testimony, must depend on the character of the paper, not on the character of the person who holds...
...opened the Biblical Message Museum of his work in Cimiez, France, talked about Valentina, sixtyish, his French wife of 20 years: "To encounter a woman in your life is a stroke of chance accorded by heaven. I don't think there was a creator who didn't depend on his wife's opinions. Oh, there were some. Mozart was unhappy with his wife. But if the encounter is a success, what does she give? All of life!" Later, "Vava," who watches her husband's work through all of its stages, returned the compliment...
...just a fortunate zany defies a quick answer. He is probably a bit of both. For a guy who would not know Gloria Steinem if she tap-danced across his chest in spike heels, he has gone a long way with sexism. But a true hustler does not depend on luck, and Riggs was awfully lucky to fall into the right game at the right time. Five years ago these superheated matches could not have happened, and five years from now they would not mean anything. But Riggs, properly overaged and frivolous, came along at the confluence of two phenomena...
...Watergate grand jury is scheduled to expire, and by then it will have decided whether to indict former Nixon Associates John Ehrlichman, H.R. Haldeman, John Mitchell, Dean and others. Just who will be indicted may depend on whether the grand jury and Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox get the tapes, which may resolve conflicting testimony from witnesses. If no one important is indicted on Watergate, it would, of course, greatly help Nixon...