Word: dependently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator Muskie was more guarded, but he made approximately the same point. Said Muskie: "I don't believe that the best way or the fairest way to stimulate the economy is a series of large tax breaks for industry which far exceed their ability to expand, and which will depend on benefits trickling down to the consumer." Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris described Nixon's program as "an economic fan dance which attempts to hide the pro-business bias of his proposals...
...same in a special state senate election in Southern California last month. Of the registered 18-to-20-year-olds polled, no less than 78% voted, against 48% of the total registered voters. Many prognosticators hold that the strength of the youth turnout in 1972 will depend largely on the candidates. If the major parties offer what the young would see as a tweedledum-tweedledee choice between Nixon and a Humphrey, they would be even more turned off than their elders. But if the Democrats put up an inspiring candidate, the young will be more likely to vote...
...past the U.S. has always managed to block the Albanian resolution by rounding up a simple majority on a procedural motion declaring the matter important. But having counted heads last year, the U.S. has concluded that it can no longer depend on enough support for this. In short, the Albanian resolution will no longer be important. In the absence of any other parliamentary maneuver, it is thus possible that a simple majority might vote for the Albanian resolution as it stands. In that case, Taiwan would...
...bouquet at the final session ("So you are saying it with flowers," she observed dryly), and described his talks with the Israelis as "friendly." But on occasion they were fairly heated. Some Israelis argued the rather Byzantine notion that by their very intransigence, they were impelling Sadat to depend more heavily on the U.S. and less on the Russians for finding a solution; Sisco took the position that Sadat would be more likely to accept a peaceful settlement if the Israelis were to show greater flexibility. The Israelis also expressed their fear of what is known in Jerusalem...
...widely diverse group includes some self-proclaimed Maoists. Others in it believe that China's social experiments can teach the West something new about achieving prison reforms, operating public health programs, and developing an industrial economy that does not have wide differences in income and does not depend heavily on a technocratic elite. Another committee concern, as Wisconsin Political Scientist Edward Friedman and Washington University Historian Mark Selden explain in a recent collection of essays titled America's Asia, is the ways in which they believe American power has "channeled, distorted and suppressed much that is Asia...