Word: dependently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acre-feet. Instead of the usual 18 crop irrigations per season, there will only be one this year. Farms have suffered more than $3 million in losses, and farmers' incomes have been cut by one-half to two-thirds. The town's businesses, which depend on agriculture, are down 40% in sales. Twenty-seven of 58 grade AAA dairymen have sold out and left the community. If the orchards do not get sufficient water by spring, the remaining trees will die. The whole economy is on the brink of collapse...
...years at Harvard were never altered as he went about the job of conducting foreign policy, Kissinger said. Once on the job, a man does not learn much other than technique-he does not get new wisdom. "You are an athlete. Even if decisions call for reflection, you must depend on your instincts ... Sometimes it feels as if you were in one of those movies, sitting on the track in front of an express train. The train is bearing down on you. You know what to do if you did not have ten other things that needed doing first...
Despite domestic opposition, recent indications of Soviet willingness to negotiate significant armament restrictions offer an important opportunity for Warnke when the talks begin again next month in Moscow, but much will depend on administration support. Recent actions by Carter and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown offer little reason for hope. Although Carter's amendments to the Ford defense budget promise certain reductions, they are achieved primarily by stretching out purchases of new weapons systems like the B-1 and the M-X rather than aiming for permanent reductions. If these "reductions" are meant as signals to the Soviet Union...
...Warnke is true to his belief in unilateral restraint, the arms control impact process could be a useful device with which to assert his agency's mandate against the burgeoning demands of the Pentagon. But again, the success of his efforts will depend largely on administration support, both in the public tone it sets for arms control and in its long term plans for weapons procurement. Carter's recent advocacy of arms control will come to naught if it is not followed by decisive action in the bureaucratic battles that are sure to follow in the months and years ahead...
...sensitive, refined, aesthetic type with considerable talent in all the arts. Your success or failure will depend upon whether you can shepherdall your ability and energy into a single field...