Word: depending
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Until these cadremen are trained-and for a long time after-South Viet Nam's fragile existence will still depend on the protection of U.S. fighting men and the funds of U.S. taxpayers. American aid will rise to $600 million or more this year, is apt to rise higher still as the U.S. underwrites the construction of the schools, power stations, hospitals, roads, ports, and communications systems that are essential for the creation of a viable nation and a healthy unified economy...
...milk away from the kiddies is not going to get very far in Congress. Johnson also trimmed his allowances for emergency disaster relief by $100 million on the theory that there will be fewer disasters in 1967, a kind of Parkinsonian precept that the number and gravity of disasters depend upon how much money will be available for alleviating them...
...result is that the typical U.S. divorce trial is a farce that totally abdicates society's interest in salvaging marriage whenever possible. Most couples hammer out a collusive pretrial agreement in which one consents to accept the fault. The couple may sue on any of 47 assorted grounds, depending on the state. All 50 states recognize adultery as grounds for divorce, 44 accept cruelty, 47 desertion, 29 nonsupport, 40 alcoholism, 43 the commission of a felony and 32 impotence. By far the most common ground is the vague "cruelty," a catchall that conceals more than it reveals. The harried...
Governor John Volpe's new $728 million budget provides badly needed funds for education and mental health facilities in Massachusetts. But Volpe's plans will depend on revenue from a proposed three percent sales tax and the Governor has failed six times to slip his tax bill past the Democratic-controlled Massachusetts legislature. Unless the governor's seventh try for the sales tax turns out to be the lucky one, few of the proposed improvements will ever be realized...
Toward Ferment. Whether Missouri now moves into the top rank of public universities will depend largely on John Carrier Weaver, 50, vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculties at Ohio State, who will succeed Ellis next August. Son of a former speech department chairman at the University of Wisconsin, Weaver holds a Ph.D. in geography from Wisconsin and has spent most of his career in Midwestern public universities, including Minnesota, Kansas State, Nebraska and Iowa. These schools, he insists, represent "the full flowering of the public land-grant concept-education, research and service combined...