Word: depending
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Much will depend, of course, on the outcome and the assessment of the Pennsylvania drama. The Department of Energy had planned to ask congressional approval for the building of experimental repositories for nuclear waste, which remains radioactive for thousands of years. California and Wisconsin have in effect banned construction of new power plants until some better method of disposing of the waste can be found. Three Mile Island can only strengthen the hands of some Congressmen who have been insisting that licensing of new plants be halted unless a series of deadlines for progress on waste disposal...
...proposal drew predictable howls from states and communities that depend on military payrolls. In Homestead, Fla., 30 miles south of Miami, businessmen are worried about the economic impact of the transfer of a 1,650-man contingent from Homestead Air Force Base to installations in North Carolina and Texas. The rebilleting, says Mayor Nicholas Sincere, would slash the $105 million local military spending by about $25 million...
Whether the Corporation votes for the withdrawal of Timkin and other companies from South Africa will depend, it appears, on how it observes its past statements on whether the "non-responsive" companies respond to the "forcefully worded" letters that the ACSR said should be sent...
Widely advertised in women's magazines and even on television, the inexpensive kits (typical prices: $7 to $10) have been on the national market for about a year. First developed in Europe, they depend on a simple application of immunology: the interaction between the hormone HCG (for human chorionic gonadotropin), which is produced as soon as a fertilized egg imbeds itself in the wall of the womb, and the specific antibody formed-in rabbits-against it. If a reaction occurs between the urine and the kit's chemicals, the hormone is present-and so most likely...
...often significant but little-known factories, dams and agricultural projects that create jobs and food, which in turn contribute to economic and political advance-and to good business for the U.S. Improving the economies of the developing countries makes them better customers. An estimated 2 million American jobs depend on exports to developing countries, and twelve of those nations, according to a United Nations Association study, are the world's fastest growing markets for U.S. products...