Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the defense-industry slump expected to linger for at least the next few years, companies that have been hedging their bets by diversifying are likely to fare better than those that remain heavily dependent on a few projects. Loral has moved more aggressively into sales of the sophisticated defense electronics that have been relatively immune to budget cutting, while Lockheed is working on rocket motors for future space shuttles. But the companies that supply instruments of war to the nation's generals and admirals fear that the latest scandal will prompt a series of excessively restrictive new laws that...
...long the voyagers stay on Mars will depend in part on the homeward-bound route. To await the proper alignment of Mars and the earth for an economical Hohmann-ellipse return, the crew would have to remain on Mars for more than a year -- increasing the mission length to what now seems an unbearably long 1,100 days. But with the expenditure of more fuel, the explorers could blast off earlier, head toward Venus and loop around it, using the planet's gravity to whip their craft toward earth at a higher speed. That would cut the mission time...
...epiphany, which Carver's characters depend on, is the creature of Modernism; post-modernists are supposed to get beyond it somehow, as writers like Donald Barthelme, Susan Sontag, and Robert Coover have demonstrated. Carver's faith in the epiphany is a throwback to an earlier way of thinking about fiction. He believes in telling a story plainly and completely. Carver's stories follow a discipline that seems to come out of necessity. His stories just barely escape the desperate world that they describe. There's no artifice--Carver wouldn't pass off a "Project for a Trip to China" (Sontag...
...projects made. "We're not on the inside, working, developing our craft," says Eduardo Cervantes, a vice president of current programs at Columbia Pictures Television and one of the few Hispanics in a top studio position. Most so- called Hispanic shows are written by Anglos, and as a result depend heavily on outsiders' stereotypes. "Mr. and Mrs. Producer," says Rodriguez, "come home every night to their Hispanic maid and gardener. That is all they know...
Lawson said he and his client have not ruledout the possibility of appealing Woodlock'sdecision. "It would depend on how we lost" whetherthey would appeal, he said...