Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astronomers reached their cosmic conclusions after several years of investigating Hubble's constant, one of the most important figures used to determine the properties and dimensions of the universe; equations for computing the size, age and density of the cosmos depend on plugging in Hubble's constant...
...solitary virtuoso, Picasso would from now on depend wholly on himself and his feelings. There would be no more collaborations, as with Braque. The corollary was that Picasso gave feeling itself an extraordinary, self-regarding intensity, so that the most vivid images of braggadocio and rage, castration fear and sexual appetite in modern art still belong to the Spaniard. This frankness?allied with Picasso's power of metamorphosis, which linked every image together in a ravenous, animistic vitality?is without parallel among other artists and explains his importance to a movement he never joined, surrealism...
...such, it has been handy for the "oil shocks" of the 1970s. When OPEC raised the price of oil in 1973, the result was economic stagnation for the developed Western countries. But Third World nations faced a crueler world. They, too, were dependent on petroleum. Not only did their economic infrastructure depend on it, but many of their people had begun using refined products--like kerosene--for cooking and heating. When the price of oil rose, therefore, the Third World could not cut down on its consumption. At the same time, it lacked the money to pay the higher prices...
Just where the Cubans can go and how they will fare once there remains the ultimate problem for the U.S., and the answer will depend on the human reactions of many Americans. At Eglin Air Force Base, two soldiers laboring in the Florida sun to erect tents wondered why they were working so hard. "I don't really feel this is a job for the military," said one. Added the other: "I felt that way this morning, but I've changed my mind. These people are so grateful." In Key West, one 75-year-old man slowly climbed...
...study public policy. "One of the worst problems I became aware of in Kennedy's administration was the pandering for government contracts. Really great people would say almost anything they thought you wanted to hear to get a contract. I became convinced that the contract relationship to outside consultants dependent on giving advice to the government was a very bad one on which to depend for getting independent, objective advice. The reason we were going so fast down the wrong road was that no alternative voices were being heard. The outsiders, if anything, reinforced what the insiders wanted to hear...