Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THIS VIOLENT, ever-changing, dog-eat-dog world, it's nice to know, there are some things you can depend on This is why every freshman male at Harvard can rest assured that, even though his tuition may be raised, his financial aid cut, and his grades suffer, he can still count on at least one call from the Action...
...White House provided sympathetic hearings to Congressmen who hinted that their vote might depend on an Administration favor in their home district; a top official made sure the back scratching stopped short of anything "illegal or expensive." Reagan aides also put out the word that the President might not be eager to campaign next year for Republican Senators who failed to vote right--a tactic that almost backfired with Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter, who confronted Reagan about it during the Capitol Hill lunch. Specter and others also heard from Geneva, where Kampelman and Colleague John Tower, a former Senator, made...
...Before the President spoke, his aides had begun passing a disconcerting message to the 22 Republican Senators who will be up for re-election in 1986. Its essence: how much help Reagan gives them now in raising campaign funds, and later by making speaking tours through their states, will depend heavily on how much they cooperate in shaping a fiscal-1986 budget to the President's liking...
...sequel does not depend on a familiarity with its predecessor, but such knowledge can hardly hurt. It is helpful, for instance, to understand that Piers Aubrey, who has deserted his wife and four children shortly before This Real Night opens, was not simply "a gambler" as he is subsequently described, but a crusading newspaper editor with a penchant for ruinous plunges in the stock market. Members of his family mourn the disappearance of a good man and suffer at the realization that his reason for departing was accurate: they are better off financially without...
Indeed, about 7 million mothers of preschoolers now work outside the home, and many must compete for scarce spaces at day care centers or depend on strangers found through want ads. Kevin Becica, 31, a Cherry Hill, N.J., civil engineer, felt she was wasting too much time carting her youngsters to a baby-sitter, so she hired Sue Thomas, a trained and bonded nanny. "It's the most expensive kind of day care," she says, "but my kids are well cared for and safe...