Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like any blueprint for government, the viability of the new Greek constitution will depend heavily on those who enforce it. In that regard, Athens Publisher Helen Vlachos, who returned last year from a self-imposed exile during the colonels' dictatorship to revive her prestigious daily Kathimerini, is confident that it will work. Says Vlachos: "I know the people who drafted it. They are responsible, intelligent, dedicated Greeks. I trust them. Therefore I trust...
...bandying about a fancy French word-éclaircisse-ment (enlightenment). His unabashed Yorkshire pronunciation brought down the House of Commons with gales of laughter. Apart from that touch of trans-Channel humor, Wilson was somber in talking about the task ahead. "Our future," he said, "will depend on what we are prepared to do by our own efforts, our skill, our technocracy-and our restraint...
Some of those means, Coleman feels, are local school boards and state legislatures-because their actions require a consensus. But he believes that successful integration in the U.S. will also depend on "voluntary factors," including more racial intermarriage...
...isolationism) will become newly respectable. We are in danger of forgetting our oldest American tradition, that the nation exists for the sake of principles that can be shared. This nation first declared its independence in "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind." Our uniqueness as a nation may depend on our ability and our power to preserve this paradox. In every generation we must once again declare our independence, while finding new ways to discover and declare our community with the world...
...Secretary is to bring about a meeting of the minds between the environmentalists and the producers. We cannot afford the negative attitude toward production that has crippled Great Britain. Without sacrificing the environment, production of all kinds can be increased, especially energy. This will depend on the Secretary of the Interior, who must be an imaginative, action-oriented person-a Teddy Roosevelt kind...