Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last minute, those pessimists had very nearly been right. Despite the recent Paris accord between French President Georges Pompidou and British Prime Minister Edward Heath about the desirability of Britain's admission, the negotiations hit one final snag. The issue was New Zealand, whose English-descended dairy farmers depend heavily on United Kingdom markets for their economic survival. The New Zealanders urgently wanted guarantees that after the mother country joined the Common Market and passed behind its protectionist agricultural tariffs, their cheese and butter exports would continue to their best customer...
...success will depend on making it impossible for the opposition to know what we are going to do from week to week, and even from one series to the next. Both on offense and defense, our game is styled to confuse the other defense or the other quarterback; that way we have the advantage because we hopefully will know what we are doing...
...demagogues, clowns, miracle workers and messiahs." Abolishing required school attendance, as Mississippi did after the Supreme Court's desegregation order, might encourage pinch-penny governments to reduce their spending on education. The poor would thus be abandoned completely to the school of hard knocks. More subtly, making teachers depend on student demand might do grave harm to universities that now support "impractical" scholarship and to the intellectual freedom to criticize society. Illich cheerfully agrees that deschooling would probably decelerate technology and the consumption that feeds economic growth. That is one of his chief goals. "Men must choose," he says...
...nation grew, medicine developed into the present confused complex of doctors, hospitals and ancillary services-nominally independent, yet inextricably bound up with one another. Doctors, who still remain the individual's main point of contact with medicine, need hospitals in order to treat their patients. Hospitals depend upon the doctors for the referral of patients; patients' fees make up the major portion of hospital operating costs...
...19th and 20th century literary incarnations, this devil seems little more than a pathetic old pedophiliac clinging to the mere body of a pubescent girl as if she were a rent-controlled apartment. Whether the book is capable of standing a reader's hair on end will depend pretty much on whether he still insists on sleeping with a light...