Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intelligence agencies depend on supercomputers to sort through the enormous quantities of surveillance data beamed home by ground-based listening posts and orbiting spy satellites. By using supercomputers to simulate explosions, nuclear weapons experts require fewer test explosions to validate their designs. Machines like the Cray-2 are essential to any Star Wars defensive system for locating and intercepting incoming missiles before they re-enter the atmosphere...
...added that her final decision will "depend first and foremost on my own negotiations with Harvard. I might come whether or not Bill gets a job in Cambridge...
...since 1978. Gorbachev told Baldrige it is "high time to defrost the potential of Soviet-American cooperation," but he blamed the limited trade between the two countries on what he called Washington's discriminatory policies and interference in internal Soviet affairs. Afterward, Baldrige emphasized that improvements in trade "will depend on parallel improvements in other aspects of our relations...
...episode was brief but embarrassing. Leaders of the British National Union of Railwaymen last week called a strike against London Regional Transport. LRT runs the city's underground subway system, on which about 2 million passengers daily depend. Most of the transit union's 15,000 members, however, cavalierly dismissed the action, and more than 75% of the city's trains ran on schedule. The strike was abandoned after just eleven hours, a remarkable event in a country where strikes were once as traditional as afternoon...
...delicacy frequently lies in arriving at safeguards agreements between the agency and countries with nuclear facilities. Each accord is negotiated individually. Country-to-country differences in agreements depend on the plants involved and the specific conditions under which governments consent to inspection. For signatories of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty all major nuclear installations are theoretically subject to visitation (states with nuclear weapons, like the U.S. and the Soviet Union, are treated somewhat differently, in that they dictate the terms of inspection). In countries such as India and Pakistan safeguards apply only to those facilities, or parts of facilities, where I.A.E.A...