Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lover, but could neither be both, nor be satisfied with either. For Ptashkina at least, the choice got easier when reduced to essentials. Love being what it is, pure gambler's odds for survival put it out of contention. "I shall arrange it, so as not to depend on love...I shall live," she writes. Love lost out to survival for Hannah Senesch, too, when to love meant "to disrupt my plans, give up my independence...
Nobody can say flatly how many calories a human needs to survive. Too many factors depend upon the individual, his environment, his activity and his general condition. In a northern industrial country, a 30-year-old, 150-lb. man needs a bare 3,000 calories a day; a 125-lb. woman and a six-year-old boy each require about 2,000. In the tropics, where people do not need many calories just to maintain body heat, the figures fall. But there is no disagreement on what happens to the child or adult whose caloric intake drops below his daily...
...these will take time to perfect, and their use will be limited unless science makes greater progress in long-range weather forecasting. Otherwise, farmers will not know which of the new seeds to plant. Unfortunately, even the best long-range weather predictions are notoriously inaccurate. Fluctuations in climate depend on so many variables-winds, temperature, rates of evaporation, etc.-that meteorologists have yet to formulate accurate mathematical models to show how all such factors affect one another...
Harvard will depend upon the performances of Keefe, senior Bill Muller, and Stein Rafto, its top runners to date. The trio took the third, fourth and fifth places in the Crimson's most recent outing, a tri-meet versus Princeton and Yale in which Harvard finished second...
Collier also said that the actual size of the deficit would depend heavily on how high fuel costs go and on the terms of a Buildings and Grounds contract which is now being negotiated...