Word: dependently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about 1.5 million bbl. That strike not only cost the government about $60 million a day in oil revenues, but also suddenly raised the specter of petroleum shortages in Japan, Israel, Western Europe and, to a much lesser degree, in the U.S.; all these countries depend in part on Iranian crude...
...they are regressive (that is, they aren't scaled according to income, so that elderly people on fixed incomes are increasingly driven out of their homes because they can't afford to pay the taxes). Nor will Question 1 cut property taxes, as long as localities have come to depend on property taxes to finance the essential services like police, fire protection, and schools. The real answer to the burden of property taxes will only come when the state passes a graduated income tax and uses the proceeds to support local services now paid for by property taxes...
...angry they hit." Some women can be taught not to hurt their children simply by getting instruction, literally, in such things as how to do housework efficiently, care for the child properly, cook meals. Women who have been abandoned by husbands are frequent child abusers, though they often depend emotionally on the very children they hurt. Sometimes the emotional role is tragically reversed. Belisle recalls a hearing before a judge in which a mother was fighting a protective service attempt to put her small son up for adoption to protect him from her beating. The child fell while getting into...
...schools--at 15 or 16, many must make the choice between the arts and sciences, and over the next three years are systematically tested and graded through the General Certificate of Education in a variety of subjects at both Ordinary (O) and Advanced (A) Levels. Admission to university will depend on A Level grades--and in the case of Oxford and Cambridge also on their own internal examinations...
...increase, it will be essential to affirm the particular character of private institutions and to remember that because times are financially strained, the government is not always the place to turn for help. Such rescue, even if it were to occur, would result in more regulation. Of course we depend on federal funds for a wide variety of crucial research and financial aid; of course there are legitimate requirements of accountability for the taxpayers' dollars that follow federal funds; of course there are legitimate regulatory functions of the federal government. But the capacity of a private institution to choose...