Word: depending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among his plans: free and compulsory education for all Egyptians up to high school age, extensive electrification of rural areas, an end to press censorship, restriction on government control of TV and radio. But such plans depend greatly on the Middle East peace negotiations. In some ways, Sadat trusts Khalil to handle these negotiations more than he trusts himself. Sadat is visionary and mercurial; Khalil is cautious and dispassionate. Sadat relies on Khalil to weigh and analyze every Israeli proposal more carefully than Sadat himself might. As one Egyptian official put it, "Khalil would not rise and fall like...
Much of what the cartel does now will depend on Saudi Arabia, whose share of OPEC oil production has soared from 26% to 34% since the Iranian cutback. The Saudis have long been regarded as the principal force for price restraint in the cartel, but statements from Riyadh last week were discouraging. After calling for urgent OPEC consultations, the Saudi government merely promised that it would not raise prices until after the end of March. Oilmen read that as a plan to boost in early April...
...consequences of the energy crunch for individual companies will depend on how much they need oil. For example, nearly all of Du Pont's 1,700 products, from paint to tires, use oil as an ingredient. Says the chief executive of a major chemical manufacturer: "If anything, we have underestimated the inflationary effects of the oil price rises...
...bears a picture of the view through the window; and this picture exactly overlaps the view, so that the play between image and reality asserts that the real world is merely a construction of mind-be any more jarring if its locale were exotic? Of course not; such paradoxes depend on the context of real life...
...raising tuition and cutting corners, and now it has no choice but "to moderate further tuition increases through a new burst of capital," Kaufmann says. Although Harvard has not been "cavalier" about passing increased costs on to students, as Kaufmann puts it, the University has recently come to depend more and more on income from students...