Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what was going on at Mehrabad Airport, it seemed all too clear that a policy of retaliation had serious limitations. There was little that the U.S. could have done to prevent such a random act of terrorism. Indeed, in the absence of diplomatic relations with Iran, Washington could only depend on the help of Swiss and British intermediaries...
...Crimson had to depend on strong performances from the bottom half of the ladder to defeat a strong Trinity squad that Harvard Coach Priscilla Choate described as having "tremendous depth...
...longer distances, Haggerty will depend on juniors Paul Gompers, Paul Kent and Bill Pate and seniors Andy Gerken, Peter Jetley and Jim MacDonald to continue to run as well as they did during the cross country season...
Much will depend on how Ronald Reagan interprets the vote. Landslides give Presidents enormous authority, but they can lead either to disasters, as did the landslides of Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, or to profound redefinitions of American life, as Franklin Roosevelt engineered. Of course, squeakers too can change American life, as Lincoln and Kennedy proved. What is critical in both landslides and squeakers is the ability of a President to read the tides, the yearnings that went into his victory, to distinguish between his own campaign rhetoric and the reality he must force his people to face...
What is clear is that the Republicans depend too heavily on Ronald Reagan for their popular support. What will they do without him? Not since 1932 has an outgoing President been succeeded by a member of his own party. Reagan's charm and charisma will not translate into votes for the boring George Bush, Jack Kemp, Howard Baker or Bob Dole. None of these men possesses the spark that Reagan...