Word: depending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statistical picture of the Houses' relative popularity will undoubtedly be paid for by the many members of the Class of '79 who receive Houses ranked in the lower half of their list. Although Bruce Collier, assistant dean of the College, insists that "the results of the new method will depend on the way in which choice is distributed" and that "if the distribution is similar to last year's, there will not be much difference in the results," Collier does admit that Rosovsky's method is more likely to result in fewer people receiving their first choice and more people...
Family honor and masculine pride depend upon the respectability of women in the family. If a girl gets a bad reputation her whole family is disgraced. Moreover she forfeits her right to a respectable husband. Slights to family honor or masculine pride are the most frequent causes of vehement argument and violent crime. Once, while dancing with some friends, a man who was not part of our group asked me to dance. Midway through the dance I was yanked from the floor by one of my friends. I had committed a grave offense by not asking the group's permission...
Whether Smith survives at all, in fact, may very well depend on South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster, his old white-supremacist ally. Vorster is himself under increasing pressure to find an equitable solution to Pretoria's jurisdiction over the disputed territory of South West Africa (Namibia) and to assuage his own black majority. After Pretoria's military misadventure in Angola, South Africans are chary of being sucked into another no-win situation. Vorster's response to the "state of war" last week was cautious, and he carefully avoided taking sides. But South Africa...
...Americans are growing more conservative, that cannot be blamed on just one region. The political views of Americans depend far more on their occupations and on their racial and ethnic backgrounds than on where they live. Political Analyst Scammon, former director of the Census Bureau, observes: "If a plumber decides to move from East Orange, N.J., to Galveston, Texas, he is likely to continue voting the way he has been voting, assuming he continues to work as a plumber in Galveston." The newcomers tend to bring their political baggage with them...
...after a couple of airings; long-term commitments to series became vulnerable. Producers depend on eventual syndication sales, and such deals are profitable only with a minimum of 100 shows. Says Bruce Geller, producer of Mannix, "It's all very confusing at the moment. No one really knows what will or will not work. Maybe television will be a little more experimental-trying to serialize novels, produce adult soap-opera concepts in prime time-than has been the case in recent years." The question remains whether that, in turn, will lead to better programs...