Word: depending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many states, present evaluation procedures leave the responsibility for judging the worth of local projects with the people whose jobs may depend on the evaluation of the programs. New York School districts, for example, evaluate their Title I programs (without any evaluation guidelines form the state), send the results to the State Department of Education, which only collects them and sends them to the USOE for distillation and inclusion in the office's glossy-covered annual report on Title I. One New York education official admitted that local districts may sometimes gloss over the defects in their programs,but said...
...been in the record business for eight years, and I've never worn a shirt and tie." Yet even the entertainment industry has its stuffier side, proving that variations in dress depend largely on what image a company is trying to project. A case in point is MCA, Inc., a film producer and recording company whose new aluminum-and-glass building in Universal City has more than its share of kookily attired production and clerical workers. Still, as one aide puts it, President Lew R. Wasserman is determined to "make the company look like a solid business operation...
Exaggerated Virtue. State conventions may or may not be representative of voters' will, since they depend as much upon the strength of that will as upon the honesty of the party leaders. Vermont's system of town caucuses to choose delegates to the state convention, which in turn selects national convention delegates, is a comparatively direct process. But in many states, such as Illinois, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic fief, the decisions of convention delegates are directly dictated by party bosses...
...fund that promises to benefit both donor and recipient. The borrower would get his money at reasonable terms in exchange for agreeing to buy from donor countries the supplies for the projects involved. Canada, Denmark and Japan have promised contributions to the special fund, but its success may well depend on U.S. participation. So far, a budget-minded U.S. Congress has balked at the Administration's pledge of $200 million...
Much discussion at the Expedition's base camp here has centered on "Stephansson's Theory," a rather simple assertion that the ocean beneath the pack ice contains enough animal life to support a handful of travelers indefinitely. Although this Expedition does not actually depend on game meat for survival, the number of large animals they actually sight will provide some idea of the theory's validity...