Word: dependently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to a recent estimate, 21% of skilled blue-collar workers and 16% of professional employees are on payrolls that rely on military spending. Entire communities depend almost totally on a military installation, defense plants, or both. Junction City, Kans. (pop. 20,500), lives off Fort Riley. The post pumps $143 million into the state's economy, most of it in the Junction City area. When an Army division left in 1965, business plummeted...
...have ambitions to expand further) and Philadelphia's Mantua-Powelton Mini School probably tops the enrollment figures with 150 students. Since they draw no funds and only small numbers of children from the public schools, school administrators can afford to ignore them. The difficulty of raising funds (most schools depend on private contributions and community fund drives for money, though some get occasional boosts from federal or foundation grants) has effectively limited the number of schools which any community can support. And even community politicians are often suspicious of the schools, fearing they will turn into imitations of white private...
...black college students, prison homosexuality, the frustrations of life in urban ghettos, and inadequate U.S. medical care. The reporter may spend weeks on these assignments, travel widely, and wind up with a front-page byline. He also knows-and enjoys the idea-that his pay and promotion will often depend on how he handles such stories...
...executive-san concerned. They are paid, no questions asked. The Japanese executive has the world's most generous expense account for nocturnal diversions. A government survey found that in 1967, Japanese businessmen spent $1.4 billion on nontaxable "official entertainment." The 1,140 bars along Tokyo's Ginza depend on the free-spending businessman, who likes to do his entertaining away from wife and home. If it were not for the golden fringes, the main streets of Tokyo-and many other great cities-would be dull indeed after dark...
...call a student strike over this issue," Schumer said, but explained that any action would depend on how many students signed the petition and how the University reacted to the demands...