Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...companies are making themselves over from the ground up, relentlessly examining the efficiency and effectiveness of everything they do. As a result, everyone from floor sweepers to senior executives must face the possibility of losing jobs, while entire communities struggle with plant closings. How well the process works may depend on the firm involved...
Like clean air and water, a reduced budget deficit is a public good: everyone benefits from it. At the same time, though, it is in each person's private interest to fight to defend his particular piece of the Government spending pie. Ultimately, America's prosperity will depend on whether its leaders have the courage to put the public good above private interests...
...success of the plan may depend on another factor: whether the government will reopen at least 50 black schools (out of a total of more than 7,000) that it has closed as a result of the black boycott or racial turmoil. In recent weeks a black-led movement has grown up favoring an end to the long "stayaway." Reason: many parents fear the boycott is permanently ^ crippling any hope for their children to receive a decent education. Among the groups urging a return to classroom normality: the United Democratic Front, the country's largest antiapartheid organization. A U.D.F. spokesman...
...American Cablesystems is in- terested in serving the Harvard community, butthat will depend on student interest and theeconomic feasibility of the project," saidHenrietta Gates, director of operations forAmerican Cablesystems...
...example, graduate students as a rule receive limited financial support from Harvard in terms of outright grants during their years of teaching eligibility. As a result, graduate students tend to depend on their teaching income as more than financial assistance--it is in fact their principal means of financial support. Hence the "desperate scramble" for sections about which Mr. Rowe spoke...