Word: depending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government within the foreseeable future. To most of the 220,000 whites, however, that would be suicide. They offered only two meaningless gestures: allowing more blacks to vote for the 15 African seats in parliament, and the creation of an almost powerless senate composed of twelve African chiefs (who depend for their livelihood on the government). Any further freedoms for the blacks were absolutely refused...
...easier to tolerate if exports were keeping pace. Export growth has been stunted by several factors: dock strikes in the U.S., the slowing of business expansion in Europe and Japan, Britain's 10% sur charge on imports, and the worldwide plunge in commodities prices, which the underdeveloped nations depend on to earn foreign exchange. And, despite denials from U.S. officials, many businessmen suspect that the "voluntary" cutback of U.S. loans abroad has also hurt the nation's exports by drying up dollars in Europe...
...staff may wish it had made more of an effort. For Claiborne can dish out as good as he gets-or as bad. And when he says good, it is very, very good for the restaurant's business. When he says bad, it can be horrid. "Our children depend on this restaurant for their future," complained one hard-hit owner in a letter to the editor...
...praised the sequential alternative to lower-level Gen Ed courses as a way "to keep pace with the increasing academic sophistication of entering classes." Its statement warned, however, that the success of the new program "will obviously depend on the creation of new upper-level courses in General Education," especially in the Natural Sciences...
Officials at local draft boards and state headquarters said yesterday that the more stringent enforcement of the requirement would apply primarily to seniors in their fifth year. The exact number of students affected will depend on the decisions of individual draft boards now in the process of reclassifying their registrants...