Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...auto exports to the U.S. (up 30.5% last year, to a total of $7.8 billion) may lead to protectionist countermeasures. Earlier this month, the Japanese government warned executives of the nation's car companies of just such rising protectionist sentiments in the U.S. Since Japanese companies depend so heavily on exports to America, they are troubled...
...hindsight, the glories of kings are apt to depend on the available talent. All the last Shah of Iran could rake up by way of a court artist was Andy Warhol. Four hundred years before, his predecessors were more fortunate. The first three-quarters of the 16th century in the courts of Persia formed one of the supreme periods in the history of art: a Middle Eastern equivalent, perhaps, of Florence between 1450 and 1500, or 16th century Venice, or Paris between 1880 and 1930. It was mainly in Tabriz, the capital of the Safavid dynasty, under the patronage...
Since returning to the U.S., I have stressed continually the importance of following press accounts with a critical eye. My parents, like most Americans who depend largely on the TV media for news, had a distinct and, I think, distorted view of Iran and the Iranian people. In fact, I did reassure them before departing for Iran. Unfortunately, a number of Ms. Safa's remarks and accusations are based on false assumptions about me, my moral standards, my academic competence and my intellectual capabilities. I fear that she had "read in" a good deal more than is in the article...
...Democrats will decide between Carter and Ted Kennedy. In August a poll showed that they favored Kennedy over Carter 49% to 26%. But a survey taken in early January indicated that 57% would vote for Carter, 24% for Kennedy. Still, the outcome could depend in large part on events abroad. Any improvement, in the status of the hostages in Iran, for example, would obviously help the President; a continued stalemate might hurt. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan automatically improved Carter's standing; in a crisis, Americans tend to rally to a President. Carter's decision to impose...
Romantic fictions depend on difficulty. Something has to keep the lovers apart for a while to build suspense and the audience's sympathy before they can get together. And, of course, there has to be something to sunder them at the end. But nowadays all the old reliable problems - differences of years, background and religion, for example - are carelessly surmounted all the time by lovers. So the search for something to deter, for a few reels, a middleaged, middle-class Marcello Mastroianni from turning his one-night stand with Nastassia Kinski, a spunky student, into a full-scale affair...