Word: depending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 450 miles of paved roads, and in Venezuela, which is three times larger than Italy, the state railroad moves on a total of 220 miles of track. The armchair traveler learns that dueling is still legal in Uruguay, that Bolivian jails do not feed the prisoners (who must depend on handouts from friends or relatives), and that Recife, a Brazilian coast city of 1,000,000 population, has 40,000 registered prostitutes. Colombia boasts more than 700 varieties of orchids. Venezuela, on the other hand, has 32 kinds of eagles. In the Argentine, parents boost their offsprings' grades...
...other regional powers besides himself-could easily rip. Fiery Neutralist General Kong Le, who fled Laos after a dustup over dragons' eggs (TIME, Oct. 21), was in Indonesia and uneasily noncommittal. Army Commander Kouprasith, who has his own ambitions for Laos, was enigmatically silent. A lot would depend on how Souvanna Phouma and the new Assembly get along together after it convenes in early February...
...have to distinguish the "black market monopolies," dealing in forbidden goods, from the racketeering enterprises. It is the black market monopolies that depend on the law itself. Without the law and some degree of enforcement there is no presumption that the organization can survive competition--or, if it could survice competition once it is established, that it could have arisen in the first place as a monopoly in the face of competition. Some rackets, too, depend on the law itself--some labor rackets, some blackmail, even some threats to enforce the law with excessive vigor. But it is the black...
...began arriving last week in Budget Director Charles Schultze's office, but, said a White House aide, "every fourth word is a blank." The budget is expected to be roughly $130 billion, with $70 billion to $75 billion of that for defense. Just where the money will go depends on such pending decisions as whether a Nike-X anti-missile missile system should be deployed, how much will be spent on a supersonic transport and how much Government paper can be sold to the public in 1967 - a factor that can vary the final size of the budget...
...lucky as I. Many of us who are organizing feel that if teaching fellows had more freedom in their work, and could take more personal initiative, both the fun and the quality of teaching would rise sharply. Then the general quality of undergraduate education at Harvard might not depend so much on luck as it does now. Marshall Berman Teaching Fellow in Government