Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adds, however, that the "failure" of the police to adequately protect women is a major reason the program is needed. "We're not able to depend on the police--it's just not happening," she says...
Women can't depend on men either, she adds, and for that reason men are not allowed to run safe houses. "If a woman has just been raped, she may not be eager to see another man," Maguire explains. She adds that occasionally men seek refuge at the safe houses as well; "It's up to the owner to let them in. The commitment they have made is to help protect other women," she says...
Commission's Houston office. Their fortunes will depend on the skills they bring. Lyle Cousins, 39, a truck driver from Goodrich, Mich., had no problem. "I came to Houston on a Friday, got my Texas driver's license on Monday and started work on Tuesday," says Cousins, whose living-room couch has been occupied ever since by friends and relatives in town to find...
...Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully...
Only a few companies check job seekers with anything like the thoroughness of the FBI. One is Coca-Cola, which may spend up to six months examining all the college and occupational data submitted by an applicant. Most other firms use more informal, and often inadequate, methods. They depend primarily on the savvy of executives doing job interviews, or the corporate personnel department, to catch cheaters. Polaroid verifies college claims only for recent graduates. A personnel director, Donald Fronzaglia, insists that few people can bluff their way into the company's high-technology jobs...