Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, the U.S. has relatively limited economic clout against the oil-producing nations, as Ford well knows. The oil countries depend on the U.S. for wheat, corn and tobacco generally, but they could get these from alternate sources. They do buy American petroleum-industry equipment, but for the U.S. to embargo such exports would be self-defeating. If the U.S. held back on sales of armaments or commercial aircraft, two major export items, the Arabs could easily find substitutes elsewhere, albeit of lower quality in many cases. The most compelling U.S. argument is actually an appeal to Arab self-interest...
...attempt to put teeth into the social contract, however, would almost certainly split the Labor Party. Economist Peter Jay warns that an incomes policy "can be trapped like a billiard ball between its commitment to full employment, to stable prices and to collective bargaining. At that point, governments that depend on satisfying those three points cease to be possible...
...psychological as well as physical." When a person develops "critical stress" and cannot cope, he says, either the mind or body has to break down. If physical illness strikes, "it doesn't do so randomly, but at vulnerable spots unique for each of us." That uniqueness will depend on which organs have been "sensitized" by heredity, childhood diseases or neurotic strategies like those the blind professor used...
Boston's salvation is still being worked out in the schools, although coverage of events is not so heraldic. The salvation of the press, however, might depend on the ability of newspapers in the future to detach themselves more from the events which they report...
...sympathetic, non-military listener for perhaps the first time, she poured out her woes. "There's absolutely no room for initiative in the army. Commanding officers are suspicious, they're constantly on your back, there is an incredible amount of backbiting and spying going on and promotions depend on who you snuggle...