Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess they have become a $3 billion-to-$4 billion-a-year business. But their cost, often $300 to $500 per bed per day, puts them beyond the reach of the innumerable addicts who do not have employers or insurance companies willing to pay. Clinics and residential programs that depend on a mix of private donations and government funding are jammed to overflowing; tales of three-month waiting lists to get in are common. Last year Washington counted a mere 269,711 people in treatment programs that receive government assistance, and federal funding for treatment has actually been reduced...
...next 30 years, medicine is going to depend more on molecular synthesis in what will be an explosive and therapeutic time," said Emery Professor of Chemistry Elias J. Corey. Molecular synthesis is a process by which scientists create materials with specific properties by altering or building their sub-molecular structure...
...faddish and traditional business garb is not quite sporty enough. His Polo purchasers are typically professionals and other upscalers who feel they have more important things to follow than fashion trends. Lauren loyalists sing of simple virtues: comfy elegance, durability, the avoidance of visual shock. They know they can depend on Lauren for a certain smart sameness, a look at once sporty and restrained. "No one understands his customer as truly as Ralph does," says Donna Karan, another leading U.S. designer. "He creates designs that match his philosophy, and he never loses his integrity." Says Grace Mirabella, editor in chief...
Some business economists are concerned that the bill could lower overall growth by crimping business investment. But the impact will depend largely on factors that are difficult to crank into a computer. Says Ira Shapiro, director of tax policy for the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand: "The changes are so dramatic that they will alter the way people invest and consume as well as business strategies across the board...
...moment, Mubarak will have to depend on the ability of his long- suffering people to muddle through the current crisis. Though the Egyptians are renowned for their patience, they will not wait forever for economic improvements. "The doomsayers have been around for quite a while," says one Western analyst. "But this time, the day of reckoning may come...