Word: depending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many maladies that afflict Latin American nations, one of the most worrisome is their dependence on one or two fragile commodities for the bulk of their export income. Last week, in Latin American Business Highlights, the Chase Manhattan Bank examined the dimensions of the malady. Of the 20 Latin American nations, 14 depend on one commodity for at least 50% of their export income (see chart). In two other cases, a pair of commodities bring in more than half the export earnings...
Transit's intricate workings [TIME, July 7] depend on an electronic system that ground stations can "inject" with information enabling the satellite to tell where it is on its orbit. Ships with proper equipment (a precision receiver and a computer) can pinpoint the moment when the satellite comes closest to them, how far away it is, and in what direction. From this information, the computer can quickly deduce the ship's position...
...requested more time to prepare their requests for U.S. aid. Reporting on his trip to Washington's National Press Club, Envoy Stevenson presented the plight of Latin America's single-product nations, vulnerable to commodity price wobbles, by emphasizing the situation of the 14 countries whose economies depend primarily on coffee. "The change in the price of coffee by half a cent per pound can wipe out all of the economic assistance that we could hope to give them for a long time," Stevenson said. Almost as he was talking, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Werner Blumenthal announced...
Whenever it is ready, the N-bomb will be a deadly weapon. It would have no ordinary fallout, but its neutrons themselves would make many things radioactive, and the intensity of this effect would depend on the local character of the soil and buildings. Attacking troops might have to wait hours or days before moving in to the enemy's undamaged fortifications...
They are 1961's most fateful labor negotiations. On them, and the negotiations at Ford and Chrysler that began later in the week, will depend in large part whether the nation will be able to stave off an other wave of inflation...