Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hope of averting a catastrophe seemed to depend on Walesa's continuing talks with Rakowski. When the Solidarity leader arrived at Warsaw's Council of Ministers building for Wednesday's meeting, supporters hoisted him on their shoulders and chanted his nickname: "Leszek! Leszek!" Barely 85 minutes later, when Walesa emerged, there was nothing to cheer about: there had been no progress. "The government," he explained, "had no proposal in relation to our demands...
...triptych. Part I begins in 1963 with five middle-aged working women loyally flocking to the weekend retreat of Father Cyprian, an unsentimental, uncompromisingly pure priest who has settled in upstate New York. This is the company of women, secular nuns who kneel before their earthly Savior, whom they depend on for comfort, for succor, for sweetness, for confession. They are prisoners of the vision of God and the light of heaven. They are bound by a hunger for the sacred which Cyprian provides with effusion and fanatical authority...
Whether these and other policies eventually foster a multination anti-Soviet defense grouping in the Far East, spearheaded by the U.S., will depend mainly on two factors: first, whether Soviet activity in the region continues to frighten the countries there in the direction of such a grouping; and second, whether those countries are sufficiently impressed by the promised U.S. buildup to follow the American lead...
...think it will be a first," Wylie said, adding that the success of the project will "depend on the public interest...
...long run, Reagan's misguided proposals will help undermine higher education and many fields of research, both of which we depend on in the struggle to improve our society. Something seems very wrong with a government determined to stock its military with every deadly gadget demanded by the Pentagon, no matter what the price, but unwilling to spend enough to maintain the quality of academic research and improve the education of its youth...