Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opportunities that would have paid them better. Partly from envy, such people may even scorn the compromises, shortcuts or betrayals on which (at least in their view) other successful careers are built. But there is more to it than envy. Such essential qualities as character, honor, decency, intelligence, lovableness, dependability, common sense, humor and perception are randomly dispersed in the population and do not necessarily ascend on a parallel curve with a man's economic status. Nor do such qualities depend upon the amount of his schooling or "brains"; IQ tests do not measure character. This...
...Conversation is a film of enormous enterprise and tension. It also gains, because of Watergate, an added timeliness, but it does not depend on it. More than anything, it is a film about moral paralysis, a subject that does not need headlines to lend it importance...
Kazana said yesterday that the cultural center, unlike Hillel House, does not have a pool of alumni to depend on for contributions. "Harvard has only had something like 500 black graduates, most of them recent, and few of whom have made their millions yet," she said. "It's obvious we need help from other places if we are to survive...
...plan, approved last fall by the trustees, says the curricular change is a response to this region's economic needs, that depend on a "highly skilled labor force...
...Goldwyn-Irving Thalberg "prestige" productions were good for the movie industry in the '30s. They cause people who would not otherwise pay attention to the form to do so. But as with the old films, so with TV movies: the quick, deft westerns, mysteries and action melodramas that depend on well-established conventions may in the end exert a larger claim on our attention than their more pretentiously publicized rivals...