Word: depending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jobs being created at a hectic pace, and production, consumer sales and capital spending all quickening, business should move ahead fast through the spring and summer. But it will begin to falter in the autumn and probably remain sluggish for much of 1979. The extent of the slowdown will depend on many, factors, notably Jimmy Carter's success-or failure-in fighting inflation. That is the forecast of TIME'S Board of Economists, which met last week...
...subject of an interview, Vlada Petric is as demanding and enthusiastic as he is when teaching. "I have an ending for your article," he says, suddenly, and waves his hands while composing his sentences. "I know the future of the film program at Harvard will depend on money," he begins. "Film Studies is an expensive medium which when approached in a scholarly way does not bring back profit. But there are dreams, dash-dash, even in academia, dot dot dot, that money cannot buy." His last sentence, he explains, is a pun of a '40s avant-garde film called Dreams...
...condition. At a state dinner, he pumped the hands of 300 guests; later he delivered a forceful speech denouncing the neutron bomb. For all of the speculation about the Soviet leader's medical status, the prospects for a Brezhnev visit to the U.S. later this year probably will depend more on the health of U.S.-Soviet relations...
...nights, sleep safely in Central Park; when citizens of all cities regarded it as a right to be able to walk the streets of an evening; when air travelers were not searched for weapons; when the safety of the great, and even the generality, did not shakily depend on bodyguards, armed janitors, closed-circuit television...
...happily with the minimum of punitive sanctions. It took a long time to discover that democratic government was, if not perfect, the system of rule that best balanced the claim of the citizen to be free and happy and the need for the state to maintain order. Essentially, democracy depends not on law and the law-enforcing arm of the state but on the willingness of citizens to accept an unwritten contract, a contract between the rational and the atavistic in themselves. When democratic order has to depend on police repression of the antisocial aggressive, then democracy itself is impaired...