Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear yesterday what Jones' function as affiliate would be Herlihy said Jones' participation in House life would depend on his schedule...
...wheedle more feed out of the government than most of his colleagues do. He can therefore afford to be relatively stoical. His wife may think of Reagan as a "chicken killer," but the farmer maintains that "Reagan has taught us to think. For years we allowed ourselves to depend on the West to feed ourselves...
Basic manufacturing industries such as steel, machine tools and construction equipment, which depend on high levels of investment, will keep on suffering. "The really critical issue," said Greenspan, "is the decline in the capital-goods markets." The ratio of capital spending to consumption has dropped about 10% since 1979, and TIME'S economists feared that the investment rate may not return to prerecession levels. In that case, the U.S. would increasingly be living off its capital stock rather than adding...
...left from U.S. territory and carried at least 61 American passengers, including a U.S. Congressman. The incident, moreover, seemed to be a crime against all humanity, a violation of the most fundamental rules of the air on which all the nations of the world, including the Soviet Union, depend in the busy, crowded skies of the jet age. "Attacking an unarmed civilian plane," said Republican Congressman Thomas F. Hartnett of South Carolina, "is like attacking a school...
...What might be called private violence, what people who know each other, even profess to love each other, do to each other, is a nightmarish realm only beginning to be forthrightly explored. Its particular horror stems from its viola tions of the trust upon which all intimate human relations depend: it is cruelty exercised on those nearest, most vulnerable, least able or inclined to defend themselves from their attackers. For those who commit private violence, who abuse children, beat wives and rape, the usual reasons behind public violence?greed, dementia, vengeance, feral antisocial anger?do not generally apply...