Word: dependently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pressure from Moscow continues," raged Hoxha, hinting that Khrushchev had even threatened to throw Albania out of the Communist bloc. "But Albania's adherence to or exclusion from the socialist camp does not depend on you [meaning Khrushchev]-but on the peoples of the U.S.S.R. and Albania...
Fast Situations. Unlike most of the oldtime Texas tycoons, the Murchisons run a team operation, delegate authority freely, and depend heavily on a stream of advisers. "Dad is a real financial genius," says John. "My brother and I don't consider ourselves financial geniuses." From all over the U.S., college friends, family friends, business acquaintances-and a spate of crackpots-tip them off about investment opportunities. Unlike their father, who disliked selling any of his properties, they are on the lookout for fast situations that they can get in and out of while the profits are ripe. Above...
...sent off to fellowship committees and prospective employers. According to its authoritative testimony, parents praise or scold, committees grant or withhold, so that even if grades served only as a report to others, the record would have to be taken seriously. Of course, it means more, for most students depend upon grades as the tangible evidence of their own achievement...
...grade system, such metaphors can serve either as excuses for not working or, in the ideal case of academic abandon, as a defense of unorthodox achievements. Unorthodox, not primarily in protest against the system, but in search for more congenial methods of learning, methods which are self-sustaining, which depend on interest rather than grades...
...things stand, the fate of a program is likely to depend on how many students take an interest in it. And this can lead to some interesting contradictions. Thus, the seven-year college-law school program died some years ago for lack of student interest. Soph Standing shows every sign of prospering despite its unpopularity in Faculty circles. The ironic contrast of student opinion with Faculty attitudes was revealed in a Questionnaire by the Student Council Committee on Educational Policy which showed eighty per cent of Soph Standing students supporting continuation of the program without substantial change. As the program...