Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shirley in Pajama Game, he recalls, "I just thought she was wonderful. The realization seemed to come to her in that show that she was more interesting than her techniques as a dancer, about which she had always had a lot of anxieties. She discovered that she could depend on her talent, intelligence and sense of humor and could do anything she wanted...
Still, corporations are taking some steps to put some order into the remuneration of top executives. More U.S. corporations are making executive pay depend upon the company's performance over several years, rather than just annual profits. That way, at least, they will avoid he embarrassment of rewarding poor performance. Firms like Sears, Roebuck and Borden link executive bonuses to high stock prices and dividends. At Sears, where first-quarter earnings increased 34%, to $214 million, Chairman Edward Telling posted a 1983 salary of $1.4 million, up 36%. A study by the Peat, Marwick, Mitchell accounting firm...
...rationale for spending this enormous amount of money is alluring. If the U.S. could successfully defend itself against nuclear attack the nuclear dilemma would be radically altered. The need to threaten mass destruction to deter attackers would disappear Peace would cease to depend on the sanity and stability of our enemies Americans would no longer have to live with the knowledge that they, their families and their civilization could be blotted out in an instant...
...scientists stressed the necessity for animals in medical research. "Practically all fields" depend on animal research, said Thomas C. Jones, professor of comparative pathology emeritus...
...profits in the next few years will depend more on its old phone business than its new computers. Critical to the company are off-delayed flat fees for longdistance service, called access charges, that were to go into effect in January but have been stalled by the Government until next year. Says Analyst Mark Luftig of Salomon Bros.: "A T & T's most immediate problem is two words: access charges." Those fees, ranging from $2 for individuals to $6 for small-business users with only one line, would have given $3.5 billion to local phone companies to offset...